August 2008 Archives

Within moments of checking my inbox and seeing Amazon finally released its Elastic Block Store for EC2, I jumped over to RightScale and saw they already had support implemented. Within a couple hours, I had TeamCity installed on a volume, and now have myself an on demand continuous integration server for remote testing.

The prolific tech people at Facebook have started the process of contributing their Hive framework to Apache. You can read about it in HAPOOP-3601. To quote, "Hive is a data warehouse built on top of flat files (stored primarily in HDFS)." Since the most common question I get is how does Cascading relate to Pig, I thought it best to offer up my comments on how Cascading relates to Hive.