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VentureBeat: Ex-Google, Yahoo, Facebook employees start company to support Hadoop data processing platform

  • ch · 1 year ago
    ding. thank you for playing.

    time to go back to journalism 101.

    google did not create map-reduce, nor is it a program.
  • Eric Eldon · 1 year ago
    Ding. Thanks for being a pedantry-focused hater, ch.

    To make you happy, I changed the word "created" to "introduced" and the word "program" to "systems framework."

    Feeling better now?
  • mindreframer · 1 year ago
    Wow, that's a heck of a team... Google, Yahoo, Facebook. I would love to work in a similar team.
  • Michael Kassing · 1 year ago
    All star team, I can't wait!
  • Ed Anuff · 1 year ago
    Lot of potential here, although Hadoop in and of itself covers a lot of ground since it can be used for a lot of different purposes. Are they going to be consulting with people on how to build applications on top of Hadoop, providing toolkits for using Hadoop for specific tasks, building Hadoop-powered applications themselves, or focusing on something like HBase? Any one of those areas would be more than enough work for a single company.
  • gsmaverick · 1 year ago
    I would take a job here any day. This is a rockstar team. Can't wait to see what they do!
  • jen · 1 year ago
    great team, but unfortunately a super boring idea/space. helping enterprise companies setup hadoop shops over the cloud is going to be frustrating ... let alone just convincing companies to use hadoop (and how to use it). but to migrate their data to the cloud too? eek. let's see how this goes. looks niche to me.
  • Kaiyzen · 1 year ago
    This is going to be great for the Hadoop project, it has been relying too heavily on Yahoo! to carry the weight.

    One of the most common processes is the processing of log files for analytics, and there are companies processing their crawls using it, notably Yahoo! and Powerset.

    There are toolsets and such being developed inside Yahoo! for their purposes, facebook as well, supposedly all to be released as Apache projects. Most likely they will be core contributors to the project and tools, do hosting or premised based work, perform consulting, and built some integration into some proprietary systems.

    If Chris is leaving the Big G either this is a fantastic opportunity and/or things got sour for him
  • Paul · 1 year ago
    How's it a start-up? Do they intend to place IT staff in companies so they can run Hadoop? The software is already open source, isn't it? Even if they could pitch it to their CTO/CIO connections, who's gonna support it? Are they trying to become RedHat?
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