manAmplified http://www.manamplified.org/ en Copyright 2010 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:01:22 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification O'Reilly Strata Conference 2011 The new Strata Conference has just been announced with a Call for Proposals ending Sept 28. This new conference is on the 'business of data' and is the sister conference to Velocity. I'm excited to be a committee member.

]]> http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2010/08/oreilly-strata-conference-2011.html http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2010/08/oreilly-strata-conference-2011.html Cascading Technical Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:01:22 -0800 BigDataCamp 2010 I'll be at the (and a sponsor of) the BigDataCamp the night before the Hadoop Summit. Sign up if you haven't.

]]> http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2010/06/bigdatacamp-2010.html http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2010/06/bigdatacamp-2010.html Cascading Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:13:50 -0800 Cascading User Group The first ever Cascading User Group will be this Thursday, September 24th, at RapLeaf.

There will be discussions on the future of Cascading, the work done by the FlightCaster folk integrating Cascading with Clojure, and various tips and techniques.

Hope to see you there.

]]> http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2009/09/cascading-user-group.html http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2009/09/cascading-user-group.html Cascading Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:41:01 -0800 Cascading WIP 1.1 A pre-release of the upcoming Cascading 1.1 version is now available. Read more about its new features here in this announcement.

]]> http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2009/06/cascading-wip-11.html http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2009/06/cascading-wip-11.html Cascading Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:07:51 -0800 Open Source Bridge + Cascading Quick reminder I'll be in Portland the bulk of next week (June 17-19) at Open Source Bridge presenting on Cascading and Hadoop. Feel free to ping me if you're around.

]]> http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2009/06/open-source-bridge-cascading.html http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2009/06/open-source-bridge-cascading.html Cascading Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:29:09 -0800 ScaleCamp ScaleCamp, the night before the Hadoop Summit 2009.

]]> http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2009/05/scalecamp.html http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2009/05/scalecamp.html Cascading Wed, 13 May 2009 21:30:04 -0800 Upcoming Presentations Thought I would share the dates/location of my next four presentations over the next few weeks. http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2009/05/upcoming-presentations.html http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2009/05/upcoming-presentations.html Cascading Mon, 11 May 2009 10:15:28 -0800 The Whys and Hows of Hadoop I've been either directly or indirectly involved in a fair number of Hadoop applications and deployments over the last year or so. In that time I've roughly characterized Hadoop usage into two "why's" and two "how's".

]]> http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2009/05/the-whys-and-hows-of-hadoop.html http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2009/05/the-whys-and-hows-of-hadoop.html Cascading Sun, 03 May 2009 10:02:00 -0800 Cascading + HBase I spent the later part of last week at the LA HBase Hackathon hacking support for HBase into a Cascading module extension. And it was time well spent.

]]> http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2009/02/cascading-hbase.html http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2009/02/cascading-hbase.html Cascading Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:44:20 -0800 Git - My Favorite Feature I've been using Git for some months now. Even though it isn't natively supported in any of my tools, and the plugins are a bit buggy, it just really doesn't matter. And the reason is pretty simple.

]]> http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2009/01/git-my-favorite-feature.html http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2009/01/git-my-favorite-feature.html Tools Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:01:55 -0800 Cascading 1.0 In case you missed it, Cascading 1.0 is now available. Here is the very short announcement on the Cascading site.

]]> http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2009/01/cascading-10.html http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2009/01/cascading-10.html Cascading Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:22:04 -0800 Some Hadoop Videos Click through for a couple Hadoop related videos.

]]> http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2009/01/some-hadoop-videos.html http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2009/01/some-hadoop-videos.html Cascading Technical Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:17:05 -0800 Cascading 0.10.0 (v1.0 RC1) Version 0.10.0 of Cascading is now available for download. For details check out the announcement. This release represent v1.0 Release Candidate 1.

]]> http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2008/12/cascading-0100-v10-rc1.html http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2008/12/cascading-0100-v10-rc1.html Cascading Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:24:38 -0800 Cascading and Pig Planners I just completed a Proof of Concept with a client where we wanted to see if Cascading could match Pig performance. For an equivalent load, it looks like Pig rendered 580 MapReduce jobs and Cascading planned 75. Running in local mode on a small dataset, Pig completed in 31 minutes, Cascading in 7 minutes.

]]> http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2008/12/cascading-and-pig-planners.html http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2008/12/cascading-and-pig-planners.html Cascading Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:57:08 -0800 DocBook Tools on GitHub I've been doing a fair bit with DocBook recently. Both the Cascading User Guide and a section on Cascading, I hope to be included in the upcoming Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, were written in DocBook. Unfortunately, finding a reasonable DocBook tool chain was difficult, so I had to adopt the Velocity DocBook Framework and make some modifications. I've published a draft of my efforts on GitHub: DocBook Framework and DocBook Template.

]]> http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2008/12/docbook-tools-on-github.html http://www.manamplified.org/archives/2008/12/docbook-tools-on-github.html Tools Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:29:50 -0800