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Big Data News – Innovative Innovations on Hadoop by Twitter & LinkedIn…

From Twitter’s innovative Namespace Design to LinkedIn’s Gobblin 0.5.0 release, which now includes Apache Kafka integration The team at Sonra have been impressed by the innovative developments reviewed through the…
Uli Bethke October 2, 2015
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Big Data News – MapR’s Deep Dive into Apache Drill and Gartner’s Big Data Predictions for 2020

30% of all Enterprises will use intermediaries for big data by 2017 Another week has passed and our big data community has been busy around the world. Some interesting movements in…
Uli Bethke September 4, 2015
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Self-Service Analytics in the Data Lake

Deriving Value from your data... We all know that decision makers and analysts need quick access to all of the structured and unstructured data in an enterprise. Typically this data…
fsd_admin July 23, 2015
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Hadoop User Group Ireland Meetup (24 June 2015): An Introduction to Spark

Thanks again to everyone who attended the third Hadoop User Group Ireland meetup. Also thanks to Bank of Ireland Grand Canal Square for making the venue available. Participants in the…
Uli Bethke July 3, 2015
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Sonra and Hostelworld at Big Data Everywhere

We were over in London last week for Big Data Everywhere. Silviu Preoteasa from Hostelworld presented our successful implementation of MapR on Supermicro at Hostelworld. Apologies for the poor quality of…
Uli Bethke June 8, 2015
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Multiple Spark Worker Instances on a single Node. Why more of less is more than less.

If you are running Spark in standalone mode on memory rich nodes it can be beneficial to have multiple worker instances on the same node as a very large heap…
Uli Bethke June 3, 2015