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July 18, 2014

Skewering Some Buzzword Baloney

Making up new words for old concepts – or using old words for new concepts – goes on all the time in the world of marketing, so you’d think we’d

Intro to Apache MapReduce 2 (YARN)

Since Hadoop version 0.23, MapReduce has changed significantly. It is now known as MapReduce 2.0 or YARN. MapReduce 2.0 is based on the concept of splitting the two major functionalities