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Episode 50 – Alan Gates Wrap Up (Part 4) Aug 29, 2017

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This is the final part of our long interview with Alan Gates. In this part, Alan talks more about ODPI, Cloud First, Apache Flink, Apache Pig and we finish off with a little bit of Philosophy. A big thank you to Alan for sharing his pearls of wisdom with us! Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

Episode 49 – Thomas Henson on IoT architectures Aug 15, 2017

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In this episode we have an interview with Thomas Henson for you. Thomas is an Isilon Data Lake Evangelist at Dell/EMC, but in this episode he will talk about IoT architectures, related to his talk at the DataWorks Summit San Jose 2017 Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

Episode 48 – Alan Gates on the DataWorks Summit (Part 3) Aug 01, 2017

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In this third part of our interview with Alan Gates, PMC member for various Apache projects including Apache Hive and co-founder of Hortonworks, we talk about his sessions at the DataWorks Summits and about the Summits in general. Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

Episode 47 – Deep dive into Kudu Jul 18, 2017

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We've been interested in Kudu for a while. But it's something that neither of your hosts have been exposed to very much. Apache Kudu went from incubation to top level project in record time and now seemed like the time was right to dig into this piece of antelope. Mike Percy, PMC member and committer on the Apache Kudu project and software engineer at Cloudera was only too glad to come on the podcast and answer all our questions! Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

Episode 46 – San Jose DataWorks Summit 2017 in Review Jul 04, 2017

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Dave joined our free ticket raffle winner Pitt at the Data Works Summit in Sunny San Jose last month and they came back with almost two hours worth of exciting stories! Thanks again to Hortonworks for providing the free ticket to our raffle that Pitt won. Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

Episode 45 – Modern Day Airships Jun 20, 2017

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Breaking up our series of insights from Alan Gates, we switch gears to another really interesting topic (and guest!) where we talk about the new visualisation features coming in Apache Zeppelin and we get it straight from the brains behind the new code, Bernhard Walter. Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

Episode 44 – Suicidal Spark Jun 06, 2017

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In this episode we're joined by Youen Chéné and Aurélien Vandel from Saagie who talk to us about their experiences deploying Spark Streaming workloads in production (based on their Dataworks Summit talk), what worked well, what didn't and what they'd recommend you might want to do if you follow in their footsteps. Enjoy! Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

Episode 43 – Alan Gates talks Hive (Part 2) May 23, 2017

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In this episode we discuss the maturity of the Hadoop ecosystem and how hard it currently still is to get the value out of data. In the main section, we will have the second part of the interview with Alan Gates, this time talking about the place Hive has in the ecosystem. We still have more from Alan so stay tuned for more Hive goodness in future episodes! Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

Episode 42 – Alan Gates talks Hive (Part 1) May 09, 2017

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Welcome to the life the universe and everything episode of the Roaring Elephant Podcast. We talk some news and this episode got a little bit ranty... Apologies for that; to balance it out we have a chat with Alan Gates talking about Hive for you. There was so much Alan Gates goodness, we've split it over a few sessions and here's part one... Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

Episode 41 – News, news and some more news Apr 25, 2017

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In this episode, due to us blowing our recording space budget with the Dataworks Summit day by day episodes (39 and 40 if you've not listened yet, go and do so!) we're just bringing you a short episode this time with news, all the news that's new and approved by the Roaring Elephants! Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.

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