Becoming a Rock Star Hadoop Administrator, Part 1

Hadoop is just storage and computing, so administering a Hadoop cluster should be a breeze, right? Well… not necessarily. When we’re talking about Hadoop, we’re talking about a fast-moving open source project that covers many disciplines and requires deep understanding of Linux, Java, and other ecosystem projects with funny names like ZooKeeper, Flume, and Sqoop. Fear not, in these posts, we hope to help you on your journey to becoming a rock star Hadoop administrator.

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Managers Your People Need a MAP

Here’s a quick acid test of your hiring-to-turnover ratio. How often are one of these phrases heard in your company? • “I’m not a micro-manager.” • “I hired them to….” • “They know what they’re supposed to do.” If our business world was homogenous then those phrases would be correct because every sales job would […]

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Managers Your People Need a MAP

Here’s a quick acid test of your hiring-to-turnover ratio. How often are one of these phrases heard in your company? – I’m not a micro-manager. – I hired them to… – They know what they’re supposed to do… If our business world was homogenous then those phrases would be correct because every sales job would[…] Read More

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Exchange 2013: New Features and Changes, Part 4

Microsoft recently released Exchange Server 2013, an improved messaging platform that provides quite a few interesting features at various levels. There are major changes, and organizations will have to rethink the way they plan to maintain or integrate messaging in their infrastructure. The level of changes is not as dramatic as those seen between 2003 and 2007, but as you will see, certain things are dealt with differently. As of now, very few organizations have Exchange 2013 running, so it is certainly going to be interesting to see how this iteration of the product will interconnect with existing messaging solutions soon.

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