“There’s a lot of value in moving logic to the data rather than moving data to the logic. And the issue here is the data is a lot bigger than the logic.” NewSQL is a class of modern relational databases that seek to provide the same scalable performance of NoSQL systems for OLTP, while still

This episode is different from the traditional interview format of Software Engineering Daily, and focuses on the history of Hadoop. Thanks to Marco Bonaci for allowing us to republish this in audio format. You can find the original post here: History of Hadoop If you like this podcast, check out Marko’s book Spark in Action (affiliate

“Benchmarks are all crap, but there are some benchmarks that are better than others.”

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“My eyes just roll whenever I see a table just full of numbers – they don’t mean anything to me, I don’t immediately grok it. But if I see a line plot, I get it, right away.”

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“The world is increasingly disconnected, if you think about dealing with things like mobile devices that flap in and out of connectedness.”

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“I found Spark and I was really excited because I’m a functional programming nerd, and it was written in Scala.”

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"It’s a great world to be a developer in. If you’re a developer today, you have so many tools and so many options."

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“I really think that data science is like design in the sense that it’s a way of thinking.”

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“The more you’re comfortable with this idea that everything is going to fail, the more you realize that it's a natural process of distributed systems, and it helps you write and architect better code.”

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“Every vendor will advertise that their system is better – that’s nice, I understand you need to sell your thing, but what am I gaining as a user and what am I sacrificing as a user by choosing your product?”

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