Episode 86: Hadoop

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Special guest, Eric Wendelin, tells us about Hadoop

News/Follow-Ups – 01:29

• Amazon has micro EC2 now

Geek Tools – 03:50

• Zippo Hand Warmer

Web Apps – 06:14

• SynchTube – Sync watching youtube videos with your friends
• SwipeGood – Rounds your transactions up to the dollar and donates (via Pol Llovet)

Hadoop – 18:25

• Eric Wendelin
• What is Hadoop?
• MapReduce?
• Where is it useful? Give some examples.
  • Server log analysis, Image processing, Search Indexes, Sorting, Recommendations (Netflix, Amazon)
• Isn’t it a lot of work to get a Hadoop cluster running?
• Suppose I’m a medium-size business owner who uses an Oracle database. Why would I go through the effort of building a Hadoop cluster when I can just buy a bigger database machine?
• When would I NOT want to use Hadoop?
  • Eric’s rule of 1 million
• Testing Hadoop jobs
• How can I get started?
  • Download Hadoop

Tags: amazon, cluster, ec2, hadoop, netflix, swipegood, synchtube, zippo

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2 Responses to “Episode 86: Hadoop”

• Eric Wendelin Says:
  September 14th, 2010 at 9:34 pm

  One thing I’d like to stress that I totally missed: Writing programs for MapReduce is not difficult. You can find a few good examples at http://stackoverflow.com/q/735791/25066

  Cheers, Eric
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