Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
OK, the content of this post is not nearly as melodramatic as the title - I'm attempting to do some log analysis with Hadoop and Pig (yes, I'm several years in the past, just barely catching up to all of you folk who have been using Hadoop for a long time). As the logs are coming from a webserver and are not that far from standard "combined" format, it is most logical to use the time-saving UDFs…