Roaring Elephant

So many of the tools and projects we talk about and use every day are prefaced by 6 letters, A P A C H E... What does it mean to be an Apache project? What does the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) do for software? Are there other options? Let us tell you about the ASF!

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One year of elephants roaring has come and gone so we reminisce a little bit about what happened over the last year. And since we could not have done this podcast nearly as good without them, we asked the special guests we have had on the podcast over the previous year to call in on the Skype call and talk about what they have been up to.

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In this episode, Dave is stuck in a hotel basement in the middle of internet nowhere and Erik Stalpers from Datameer joins us to talk about the Datameer exploration and visualization tool.

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Rounding out our series on security in Hadoop, we finish with Encryption at rest and in motion. We go over the different approaches, do's and don'ts and mention some higher level application in this space.

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In this episode, we continue our coverage on Hadoop security. Where episode 24 dealt with the subject of authentication, we now delve deeper in the why and how of authorization and audit, and cover the  major players in the arena.

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When we talk about Big Data and Hadoop in particular, we generally have one of the existing distributions from Cloudera, Hortonworks or other Big Data companies in mind. But sometimes, a pre-built distro just does not meet the needs. In this episode, we have a guest on the show that explains why they made the choice to forgo the available distributions in favour of building ones own.

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With Hadoop Summit Melbourne 2016 starting the day after we are recording this episode, we go over the published agenda and discuss the current state of the Big Data Technology ecosystem while we pick our favorite sessions. Wish we were there!

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In this episode, we discuss this fortnight's interesting big data news that caught our eye and then go on to discuss the basics around authentication in Hadoop for what is the first in a series of episodes that we'll be doing over the next few months on the broad topic of security.

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The main subject in this episode features answer to a listener question we received a couple of months ago: How can big data help small businesses? What ways can small business use big data? At the moment all the talk is about big data helping enterprise firms. And we are introducing a new section which we hope you will enjoy!

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Big Data in Small BusinessThe main subject in this episode features answer to a listener question we received a couple of months ago: How can big data help small businesses? What ways can small business use big data? At the moment all the talk is about big data helping enterprise firms. Apart from that, we introduce a new section which we hope you will enjoy! Read more »