Hadoop and Pig with Alan Gates from Yahoo
Episode 4 of our Podcast is with Alan Gates, Senior Software Engineer @ Yahoo! and Pig committer. Click here to listen.
Hadoop is a really important part of Yahoo’s infrastructure because processing and analyzing big data is increasingly important for their business. Hadoop allows Yahoo to connect their consumer products with their advertisers and users for a better user experience. They have been involved with Hadoop for many years now and have their own distribution. Yahoo also sponsors/hosts a user group meeting which has grown to hundreds of attendees every month.
We talked about what Pig is now, the future of Pig and other projects like Oozie http://github.com/tucu00/oozie1 which Yahoo uses (and is open source) for workflow of MapReduce & Pig script automation. We also talked about Zebra http://wiki.apache.org/pig/zebra, Owl http://wiki.apache.org/pig/owl, and Elephant Bird http://github.com/kevinweil/elephant-bird
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