Eric Baldeschwieler VP Software Engineering, Hadoop Development
Eric Baldeschwieler has been working on web scale technology for Yahoo since 2003. In 2005 he is founded the Yahoo! team that has taken Hadoop from a 20 node prototype to a 40,000+ node service that is “Behind every Click” @Yahoo!
He was a technology leader of Inktomi’s web search engine, since 1996. Yahoo acquired Inktomi in 2003. Previously he worked on video Games, video special effects systems, and 3D rendering products. He holds a BS in Applied Math (CS) from Carnegie Mellon and an MS in CS from UC Berkeley
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 [...]
Hi Folks, I’m pleased to announce that after some reflection, Yahoo! has decided to discontinue the “The Yahoo Distribution of Hadoop” and focus on Apache Hadoop. We plan to remove all references to a Yahoo distribution from our website (developer.yahoo.com/hadoop), close our github repo (yahoo.github.com/hadoop-common) and focus on working more closely with the Apache community. [...]
Somewhat to my surprise, I was recently asked why Yahoo has put so much into Apache Hadoop. We currently have nearly 100 people working on Apache Hadoop and related projects, such as Pig, ZooKeeper, Hive, Howl, HBase and Oozie. Over the last 5 years, we’ve invested nearly 300 person-years into these projects. The Hadoop team [...]
