Post archive for 2010

More than 100 Hadoop developers and enthusiasts congregated on the Yahoo campus for the monthly HUG meeting on November 17.

The Bay Area Hadoop User Group (HUG) meets this Wednesday, November 17, at 6 p.m., Yahoo! Building E in Sunnyvale, CA.

On tap: State-of-the-Art Productivity Tools for Developers and Analysts, Ben “Shevek” Mankin, and How Cascalog fills a need as an internal Domain-Specific Language for Map/Reduce jobs, Marc Limotte.

The event included Chris Riccomini talking about Pig at LinkedIn, Dhruba Borthakur and Dmytro Molkov from Facebook on High Availability, and Ahad Rana from Opencrawl on scalable web crawlers.

This blog post describes how to get started with the Hadoop 20.S VM appliance, with links to download the latest VM Player and the Hadoop 0.20.S VM Image.

We are pleased to present a new result on computing specific bits of π. hese 256 bits end at the 2,000,000,000,000,252^nd bit position, which doubles the previous known record.

Thanks to the around 175 developers who came to Yahoo! recently for our monthly Hadoop User Group meeting. The energy in the packed room was phenomenal, and conversations continued long after the formal sessions. Hundreds of Hadoop Fans Flock to Yahoo! for the Hadoop User Group The event started with Arun Murthy from Yahoo! describing [...]

Apache Hadoop is a software framework to build large-scale, shared storage and computing infrastructures. Hadoop clusters are used for a variety of research and development projects, and for a growing number of production processes at Yahoo!, EBay, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and other companies in the industry. It is a key component in several business critical [...]

Yahoo! has begun evaluating Hive for use as part of its Hadoop stack. Since, in many peoples’ minds, Hive and Pig are roughly equivalent and Pig Latin is very close to SQL, this has led to some confusion. Why are we interested in using both technologies? As we have looked at our workloads and analyzed [...]

Hi Hadoopers, I’m excited to invite you to the next Hadoop Bay Area User Group, August 18th, 6 p.m., at the Yahoo! Sunnyvale campus. The Hadoop community is growing — we had more than 200 attendees at the last meetup. We invite you to attend whether you are an active submitter, developing Hadoop-based applications, or [...]