a smackdown of sort pitting kafka streams, spark streaming, and storm against each other — not for the features they give developers, but for the features they offer the operations side of the devops formula
Author Archives: lestermartin
presenting at hadoop summit (archiving evolving databases in hive)
overview of, and links to related artifacts for, my presentation at hadoop summit about strategies to handle changing data in hive’s immutable architecture
small files and hadoop’s hdfs (bonus: an inode formula)
a walk-thru of the infamous small files problem for hadoop coupled with a unique problem with inodes usage for mass quantities of extremely small files on hdfs
how do i load a fixed-width formatted file into hive? (with a little help from pig)
presents a couple of options for converting a fixed-width formatted file a a delimited one to prepare it to be exposed as a hive table
visiting the computer history museum (yes, i’m a geek)
pictures and observations from my visit to the computer history museum in palo alto, ca
fruITion and recrEAtion (a double-header book review)
a sobering couple of books aimed at challenging many of the believes IT workers have about their role in the organization and exactly who is in charge of strategy — and enterprise architecture
are you a mort, elvis or einstein (or are these labels nonsense)?
a few simple personas represent the vast majority of software developers — which one are you?
enterprise 2.0 book review (using web 2.0 technologies within organizations)
my review of a great book focused on enabling and encouraging collaboration within organizations
give as few orders as possible (encourage autonomy and responsibility)
micro-prioritizing can hurt your team’s ability to be autonomous and create a lack of ownership in their work