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Big Data News: Yahoo’s Data Sketching and Apache Spark 1.6

Launching 2016 in style with an exploration of Yahoo’s successful scaling of aggregate computational queries using data sketching libraries to Apache Spark releasing Spark 1.6 Firstly, the team at Sonra…
Uli Bethke January 8, 2016
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Apache Myriad V0.1 release and Hadoop User Group (HUG) Ireland’s final 2015 event at Accenture

Will Apache Myriad’s release spark a Big Data Evolution?. . . and Storm, Kafka, Akka, and Prometheus took centre stage at HUG Ireland’s final 2015 event Once again, the team…
Uli Bethke December 18, 2015
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Big Data News: Hadoop User Group (HUG) Ireland’s morning briefing and MapR’s new Product Launch called “Streams”

HUG Ireland’s great morning briefing with Alexey Grishchenko and MapR is now directly competing with Apache Kafka Last week was a busy one in operations for the Sonra team with…
Uli Bethke December 11, 2015
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Big Data News: Apache Kafka 0.9 Release and Ebay Open Sourcing of Pulsar Reporting

Open Source movers this week with Kafka 0.9 release along with Ebay’s extension of Pulsar open source with Pulsar Reporting  The world does not stand still too long in Big…
Uli Bethke November 27, 2015
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Big Data News: Open Source with HUG Ireland with Google & Zalando

Hadoop User Group (HUG) Ireland’s latest event, Google open sourced its AI “Tensorflow” and Zalando has a new “vision statement” for it’s Open Source “Guild” Last week was a busy…
Uli Bethke November 20, 2015
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Big Data News: Web Summit 2015 A Massive Success

A Sonra Special about Web Summit held in Dublin last week  The Sonra team was working this week learning about so many businesses @websummit in Dublin Ireland. The fusion of…
Uli Bethke November 9, 2015