Roaring Elephant

Another Big Data news episode! This time we consider the Big or small nodes conundrum based on an article that after close scrutiny doesn't really seem to test the real issue. Other things that get covered are Linkedin's Dynanometer, Cloudera's full production architecture advise for a recommendation service and a really interesting visualization technique based on blobs. Breaking News Big Data, Small Nodes https://insidebigdata.com/2018/02/22/make-sense-big-data-small-nodes/ Dynamometer Release https://github.com/linkedin/dynamometer https://venturebeat.com/2018/02/08/linkedin-open-sources-dynamometer-for-hadoop-performance-testing-at-scale/ Cisco IoT predictions Aka someone somewhere trots out the old “data is the new oil” trope for one more circuit, please please please stop? https://www.networkworld.com/article/3257769/internet-of-things/7-transportation-iot-predictions-from-cisco.html Production Recommendation Systems with Cloudera http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2018/02