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The 411 from the 2012 Hadoop World and Cloudera

Cloudera, Technology, Training in Business

With the completion of Hadoop World 2012 in New York City, it was no surprise that there would be a flurry of announcements from Cloudera and of course, exciting news for Apache Hadoop practitioners!

Beyond the move to a new logo and tagline (which is quite nice) and a brand new Cloudera website design (very nice!), Cloudera’s biggest announcement focused on what had traditionally been a weakness for open source Apache Hadoop: its focus on batch-processing queries. Enter Impala, a real-time query engine that allows users to directly query data in HDFS and HBase through Hive SQL. And the beauty of it all is that Impala is 100% open-source code and currently available as a beta release. Expect the production release to hit in early 2013.

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Developing Agile Management

Professional Development, Project Management, Training in Business

The traditional project planning process is supposed to help us identify when a project cannot be successful before the work begins. But in reality, the number of unknowns often makes it impossible to make such dire predictions with any certainty. This is just as true with Agile projects as with any other. But Agile projects have an advantage in that there is a ready-made barometer built into the process that will provide early warning of impending doom.

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