Roaring Elephant

Venkatesh is a new contributor to Apache NiFI and during his talk at the Hadoop Summit next week, he takes a light-hearted look at his journey of how to become a contributor to an Apache Project.Venkatesh is one of the Community Choice winners, so congratulation are in order and we are certain you will like this interview! Enjoy, and we looking forward to seeing you at the Hadoop Summit in Dublin next week!

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Interview with Community Award Winner Venkatesh SellappaVenkatesh is a new contributor to Apache NiFI and during his talk at the Hadoop Summit next week, he takes a light-hearted look at his journey of how to become a contributor to an Apache Project. Venkatesh is one of the Community Choice winners, so congratulation are in order and we are certain you will like this interview! Enjoy, and we looking forward to seeing you at the Hadoop Summit in Dublin next week! Read more »

Next month, the European Hadoop Summit will take place in Dublin. Now that the agenda for the event has been nearly finalised we take it upon ourselves to provide a virtual guide to the event. There's a lot of good things happening during the event so we share with you what sessions we think we'll be attending and why. Enjoy, and looking forward to seeing you there!

This is another long episode, going over an hour for the first time. We are really curious to know if you like these longer episodes, or if you would prefer it if we kept it under the original 30 to 35 minutes?

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Preparing for the 2016 Hadoop Summit in DublinNext month, the European Hadoop Summit will take place in Dublin. Now that the agenda for the event has been nearly finalised we take it upon ourselves to provide a virtual guide to the event. There's a lot of good things happening during the event so we share with you what sessions we think we'll be attending and why. This is another long episode, going over an hour for the first time. We are really curious to know if you like these longer episodes, or if you would prefer it if we kept it under the original 30 to 35 minutes? Enjoy, and looking forward to seeing you there! Read more »

SQL was one of the first data access methods added to vanilla Hadoop. Considering that the many of the people working with Hadoop in the early days came from a database background, this is not surprising. Since then, the SQL ecosystem in Hadoop has grown considerably and in this episode we do a general overview of many of the available choices.This episode runs a bit longer than normal but we hope you'll find it worthwhile!

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SQL in HadoopSQL was one of the first data access methods added to vanilla Hadoop. Considering that the many of the people working with Hadoop in the early days came from a database background, this is not surprising. Since then, the SQL ecosystem in Hadoop has grown considerably and in this episode we do a general overview of many of the available choices. This episode runs a bit longer than normal but we hope you'll find it worthwhile! Read more »

In this episode we'll go into more depth on NiFi complete with our second interview with Joe Witt, Senior Director of Engineering at Hortonworks who dives into how NiFi works under the covers and some considerations to think about when using it for real.

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NiFi Deeper DiveIn this episode we'll go into more depth on NiFi complete with our second interview with Joe Witt, Senior Director of Engineering at Hortonworks who dives into how NiFi works under the covers and some considerations to think about when using it for real. Read more »

In this episode we'll cover some of the most common options for ingesting data into Hadoop including technologies like Flume, Sqoop, Kafka, NiFi and more.

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An introduction to Data IngestIn this episode we'll cover some of the most common options for ingesting data into Hadoop including technologies like Flume, Sqoop, Kafka, NiFi and more. Read more »