Hadoop Summit 2011 is over. If you saw this tweet ”#hadoopsummit planned for 1,500. upped on demand to 1,600. finally accommodated 1,700. ran out of space, good problem to have. :-),” then you probably got an idea of how exciting and mobbed the conference was this year. With folks dropping by from coast-to-coast, and quite [...]
On June 29, Yahoo! will host the 4th annual Hadoop Summit at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Hadoop Summit 2011 brings together some of the most influential thought leaders in the space – from Yahoo, Facebook, IBM, NetApp, and others. Jay Rossiter, Senior Vice President of the Yahoo! Cloud Platform Group will open the show [...]
Hi Folks, Here are my slides from the IBM big data symposium. This was a good event. IBM announced a new release of their Apache Hadoop based Big Insights platform. It is great to hear their commitment to Apache. Yahoo was there talking about our experiences and uses of Hadoop. I got a lot of [...]
Stack and I are the track organizers for the community track at the Hadoop Summit this year. The community track is for presentations on roadmap, developments and features in Apache Hadoop. So if you’ve added a new feature to Hadoop and want to publicize it to the world’s largest and most important Hadoop conference, please [...]
Hadoop Summit is a great annual gathering of developers to talk about all things Hadoop. The attendance is great, we are expecting 2000 this year; the presentations are excellent; and the hallway conversations are a great way to meet new people and come up with new ideas. This environment is especially great if you have [...]
Last month the HCatalog project (formerly known as Howl) was accepted into the Apache Incubator. We have already branched for a 0.1 release, which we hope to push in the next few weeks. Given all this activity, I thought it would be a good time to write a post on the motivation behind HCatalog, what [...]
More than 200 Hadoop developers and enthusiasts congregated on the Yahoo campus for the monthly HUG meeting on March 16-Th. As always, they were treated to some enlightening presentations in addition to good food and beverages. After the usual 30 minutes of socializing and networking, Milind Bhandarkar from LinkedIn, kicked off the evening with a [...]
Hadoop Summit 2011 – Registration Now Open! Calling all Hadoopers Yahoo! is pleased to announce that this year’s Hadoop Summit is scheduled for June 29th at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Registration for the event is now open and offers an early bird special of $125, a savings of nearly 30% on the full ticket [...]
The Hadoop project won the top MediaGuardian Innovation award. A groundbreaking open source project has won the top prize at the 2011 MediaGuardian Innovation Awards.The judging panel described the Apache Hadoop project as the Swiss army knife of the 21st Century, and having the potential to completely change the face of media innovations across the [...]
Introduction The previous post in this series covered the next generation of Apache Hadoop MapReduce in a broad sense, particularly its motivation, high-level architecture, goals, requirements, and aspects of its implementation. In the second post in a series unpacking details of the implementation, we’d like to present the protocol for resource allocation and scheduling that [...]
