Tag Archives: Hadoop

What Happened to Hadoop?

Posted on March 2, 2020 by way0utwest

Six or Seven years back, Hadoop was the big thing. It was going to solve our big data analytic needs, it would provide cheap storage and query power with commodity servers. More and more companies were going to be using … Continue reading →

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A Good Use for Hadoop

Posted on February 25, 2016 by way0utwest

Netflix is an amazing company. I’ve been a customer for over a decade, starting with the well known red envelopes that moved DVDs through the mail. Since then I’ve continued to subscribe as a streaming company and have enjoyed quite … Continue reading →

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Hadoop and SQL Server

Posted on January 14, 2015 by way0utwest

There has been a lot of media attention to Hadoop in the last few years. In fact, Microsoft has spent a lot of resources to build the HDInsight version of the platform and integrate it into SQL Server. I’ve read quite a bit … Continue reading →

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The Power of Hadoop

Posted on February 27, 2012 by way0utwest

  I wrote about Hadoop years ago, when it was a young project from Yahoo. Over the years the framework has evolved to become very important to a number of companies, important enough for Microsoft to make some substantial investments in Hadoop … Continue reading →

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