This will be a short(ish) post, as my brain is relatively fried from the obscene amount of knowledge imparted by the Hadoop class (and it’s Friday so I’m allowed to be lazy nanny nanny boo boo). To be honest, this was probably the most fun day of class. While the
Cloudera Developer Training for Apache Hadoop is almost over, and I’m somewhat sad that my Hadoopin’ days are nearly done–in the classroom at least. However, the breadth of this training has been great and I can definitely say I’ve gotten my (company’s) money’s worth. Being that I’m three days in,
Yesterday I completed the second day of Cloudera Developer Training for Apache Hadoop. While the first day focused on Hadoop core technology like HDFS, the second day was all about MapReduce. That means it was the day that whole ‘developer’ thing was thrown into sharp relief. I’ve been a DBA
What’s the best way to follow up a week of Oracle OpenWorld? Cloudera Developer Training for Apache Hadoop of course. So today I had my first day. I won’t detail the course itself (though I hope there will be many Hadoop posts to come). But I would like to share
I’m back from OpenWorld and my head is still buzzing from the excitement of this week. It has been an absolute whirlwind of information, awesome people, and events. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend Sunday’s festivities as I arrived Sunday night. First thing Monday morning I checked in and received
Ready for a Database 12c Beta Exam? Tim Hall–and I’m totally not kissing up here but he is an amazingly benevolent model citizen–is holding a comment contest for a voucher to take the Oracle Database 12c: Installation and Administration (1Z1-062) beta exam for free. The rules are listed out clearly,
It was a fantastic day for good news. I’ll be honest, I didn’t have high hopes. Yesterday I was minding my own business, driving 55MPH (that’s 88.5KPH for the other 53,720,000 square miles of landmass in the world (that’s 13,913,400,000 hectares or whatever unit of area you all use)) on
At the Council of IT… Related Pay attention Ace! Daydreams #1 Rolling back parameter changes? The Sin of Band-Aids
Getting Into Linked Data and the Semantic Web This is a post about the RDF metadata model and SPARQL query language, two components of the Linked Data structured data methodology. All of this is part of the collective vision known as the Semantic Web–a Web of Data that can be
