Tom Walker

2 posts published

Introduction to Hadoop HDFS (and writing to it with node.js)

The core Hadoop project solves two problems with big data - fast, reliable storage and batch processing. For this first post on Hadoop we are going to focus on the default storage engine and how to integrate with it using its REST API. Hadoop is actually quite easy to install

Introducing some Short Tutorials for Hadoop

I’ve recently joined Rittman Mead and part of my job will be looking at ‘Big Data’ technologies. This includes looking at how we can apply technologies to manage big data sets whether it be lightweight (but large) key-value stores, capturing and moving data or running batch jobs. My background