The Future of Hadoop – with Doug Cutting and Jeff Hammerbacher
From the description:
With a community of over 500 contributors, Apache Hadoop and related projects are evolving at an ever increasing rate. Join the co-creator of Apache Hadoop, Doug Cutting, and Cloudera’s Chief Scientist, Jeff Hammerbacher, for a discussion of the most exciting new features being developed by the Apache Hadoop community.
The primary focus of the webinar will be the evolution from the Apache Hadoop kernel to the complete Apache Bigtop platform. We’ll cover important changes in the kernel, especially high availability for HDFS and the separation of cluster resource management and MapReduce job scheduling.
We’ll discuss changes to throughout the platform, including support for Snappy-based compression and the Avro data file format in all components, performance and security improvements across all components, and additional supported operating systems. Finally, we’ll discuss new additions to the platform, including Mahout for machine learning and HCatalog for metadata management, as well as important improvements to existing platform components like HBase and Hive.
Both the slides and the recording of this webinar are available but I would go for the recording.
One of the most informative and entertaining webinars I have seen, ever. Cites actual issue numbers and lays out how Hadoop is on the road to becoming a stack of applications that offer a range of data handling and analysis capabilities.
If you are interested in data processing/analysis at any scale, you need to see this webinar.