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Cascading 0.7.0 and Cascading.groovy 0.3.0

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:26:05 -0800

Version 0.7.0 of Cascading and 0.3.0 of Cascading.groovy is now available for download. For details check out the announcements.

Concurrent, Inc.

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:05:15 -0800

Some people may have noticed already, but I've founded a new company with the goal of taking Cascading to the next logical level in the clustered computing space. Concurrent, Inc. currently only offers alternative licensing and support for Cascading, but watch that space for further announcements as things unfold.

Cascading at the Hadoop User Group

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:19:55 -0800

I've been invited to speak at the next Hadoop User Group meeting on July 22 at the Yahoo! campus. The meetings are open to all interested parties, and there is always free beer and pizza. Plus you get to meet developers of other Hadoop related projects like ZooKeeper and Pig. Hope to see you there.

Cascading and Apache PIG

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:05:59 -0800

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.

Structure 08 & CloudCamp

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:24:46 -0800

I'll be attending Structure 08 and CloudCamp this year. Feel free to ping me if your attending either.

Cascading.groovy 0.2.0

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:17:07 -0800

Version 0.2.0 of Cascading.groovy is now available for download. For details check out the announcement. Cascading.grooy is our Groovy language interpreter extension to Cascading.

Cascading 0.6.0

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:39:58 -0800

Version 0.6.0 of Cascading is now available for download. For details check out the announcement.

Hadoop Quotes

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:45:19 -0800

A couple interesting quotes from the Hadoop user list. Not indicative of anything in particular, but noteworthy.

Hadoop & EC2

Thu, 22 May 2008 08:01:06 -0800

Hadoop 0.17.0 is now generally available. This also means there are new scripts for managing EC2 clusters using the new EC2 features like 'availability zones', the new optimized kernels, 32 and 64 bit images, and Ganglia. Also looks like Tom has already packaged new public AMI's as well. You can read about the changes here on the Hadoop Wiki EC2 page. Here also is the JIRA issue with the patches.

Hadoop vs GridGain

Thu, 08 May 2008 09:55:54 -0800

Thought I would quickly post this link to the Hadoop wiki comparing GridGain to Hadoop. In summary, Hadoop was designed for large data applications. GridGain is simply a re-imagining of tuple-spaces with constraints on available JVM memory (as implied by the comparison). Hopefully I'll post my own opinions at a later date. [Update] A reaction to the comparison has been posted.

Scripting Hadoop Jobs in Groovy

Mon, 05 May 2008 15:44:13 -0800

After much poking around and experimentation, we just packaged and released 0.1.0 of Cascading.groovy, our Groovy language interpreter extension. Read more on the Cascading site.

Cascading 0.5.0

Mon, 05 May 2008 12:58:52 -0800

Version 0.5.0 of Cascading is now available for download. For details check out the announcement.

New Site For Cascading

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:31:49 -0800

Just wanted to quickly point out we have a new site online for Cascading. Also, we added some extra documentation. See our Gentle Introduction to Cascading for a really simple primer to building Cascading applications.

Cascading 0.4.0

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:42:27 -0800

Version 0.4.0 of Cascading is now available for download. See below for a review of the major changes. For more details, see the changes.txt file.

Obligatory EC2 Remarks, Hadoop Clusters

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:38:05 -0800

There is much buzz regarding the recently announced feature additions to EC2. Namely about Elastic IP Addresses and Availability Zones. But if you look closely, you will see there were 4 new features added. User Selectable Kernels and New Public AMIs and Kernels (32bit and 64bit).