Roaring Elephant

In this episode of the Roaring Elephant podcast, Dave and I continue to share our Dataworks summit experience, meet yet more listeners, sit in on a few more sessions and give our overall view of the day and the summit as a whole! It will make you wish you were here.

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In this episode of the Roaring Elephant podcast, Dave and I attend the Dataworks summit, meet listeners, sit in on sessions and give our overall view of the day! It's the next best thing to being here.

If you ARE here, then look out for us, we'll exchange limited edition Roaring Elephant stickers for audio clips.

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This week, your hosts go over what we consider to be our pick of the sessions that will be presented during the Hadoop Summit Dataworks Summit in Munich next week.

The Roaring Elephant will be in attendance, look out for the two guys in distinctive yellow fleeces with the Roaring Elephant logo on the back, we hope to see you there!

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In this episode, we start a new series on the different roles in Big Data. Purely by coincidence, it turns out that the winner of our raffle started a new job as a Data Engineer at the beginning of this month, so naturally we decided to invite Marcel-Jan on the show to talk about the how and why of his career move.

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No guests today, just Dave and Jhon talking so brace yourselves! This time we're actually going to explain what we mean by "single view of customer" go through explaining an example of a use-case and discuss how you might implement such a thing. Enjoy.

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Paul Codding and Sheetal Dolas, both from Hortonworks, join us in this second part of a two part episode where they share their experience with what can go wrong when Hadoop is deployed. Listen to the tips and tricks these gentlemen share and double the throughput for your cluster.

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Paul Codding and Sheetal Dolas, both from Hortonworks, join us in this first part of a two part episode where they share their experience with what can go wrong when Hadoop is deployed. Listen to the tips and tricks these gentlemen share and double the throughput for your cluster.

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This episode, we have an absolutely brilliant topic that we were going to cover after the news section... But the news section has us talking so much that it ran a bit long. Preferring not to give you a two hour episode, we're rescheduling the delivery of the intended topic to next episode and present you with our first (and probably last) "News only" episode.

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In this episode, we talk about the use and abuse of certifications, both the certifications you van achieve by passing an exam and the Industry ISV certifications that should help yu make purchasing decisions.

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In this episode, we go over the bold predictions for 2016 we made just before the start of the year. Find out how right we were, or indeed how bad we are at predicting the future of Big Data.Undeterred, we then happily put on our Nostradamus hats and proceed to make even more new bold predictions for 2017. Have a listen and let us know if you agree or disagree with our view on the world?

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