By Robert J Berger, on September 4th, 2009
NOTE (Sep 7 2009): Updated info on need to use Amazon Private DNS Names and clarified the need for the masters, slaves and regionservers files. Also updated to use HBase 0.20.0 Release Candidate 3
Introduction
As someone who has “skipped” Java and wants to learn as little as possible about it, and as one who has not [...]
By Robert J Berger, on August 28th, 2009
Opportunity Knocks
Runa.com, the startup where I am CTO, is looking for great developers to join our small agile team. We’re an early stage, pre-series-A startup (presently funded with strategic investments from two large corporations). Runa [...]
By Robert J Berger, on January 5th, 2009
UPDATE: This has been replaced by a newer post Experience installing Hbase 0.20.0 Cluster on Ubuntu 9.04 and EC2 . I found that using the pre-built distributions of Hadoop and HBase much better than trying to build from source. I need more Java/Ant-fu to do the build from scratch. The HBase-0.20.0 Release Candidates are really [...]
By Robert J Berger, on November 19th, 2008
Today’s article in O’Reilly’s Radar by Joseph Hellerstein, is a concise synopsis of the state-of-the-art large scale data analysis. It compares the Enterprise IT dominant Relational Database paradigm to the emerging (with a bullet!) MapReduce / Hadoop technologies.
Professor Hellerstein, from UC Berkeley lives this stuff as a leading researcher on databases and distributed systems. He [...]