A recent thread on the Hadoop mailing list prompted me to throw out some quick comments on Cascading and how it compares to Apache PIG. I'm reposting those comments here with minor edits for clarity.
I'll be attending Structure 08 and CloudCamp this year. Feel free to ping me if your attending either.
For years I've used or relied upon virtualization technologies such as User Mode Linux, FreeBSD Jail, VMWare, Parallels, and Xen (by virtue of EC2). All of these represent a kind of vertical or narrow virtualization, where you have a single box and are sliding into it as many virtual systems as possible. The converse to this is a kind of wide virtualization that spanning many machines.
Now accepting OpenID authentication. Also, check out my new look. [update: 9-12-07] Seems this OpenID thing was a mistake.
My experiment (contract) has ended with interesting results. Subsequently I am shopping around for a new project. Have something interesting? If so please drop me a line.
Funny thing happened on the way home from the office today. In short, I got to spend two segments of a flight from BOS to SFO with the same UAL pilot. And both segments were delayed at the departure and arrival of each, in similar fashions, causing many missed connections.
Roger has made a great point in his post on Milestones Must Be Deliverables.
How can you measure how far a given complex System is from the simplest System it can be? Here's a hint: distance = sqrt( Tp^2 + Tm^2 + Tv^2 + Tl^2 )
If your a victim of RegisterFly, sign up at the RegisterFly Impact Registry. For more information, see Bill's blog entry. Note his new domain name too... http://meme-rocket.com.
Looks like I will be at SXSW Interactive again this year. Drop me a note if you'll be around and want to discuss the virtues of Singletons.
