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.
I don't have to do much data analysis fortunately, but when I do there are two options: either the data is local to our own datacenter and I can use our own Hadoop cluster, or it is external and I can use Elastic MapReduce. Generally you don't run an Elastic MapReduce cluster all the time, so when you create your cluster you still need to get that data into the system somehow. Usually the easiest…
It has been quite a while since I've had anything sufficiently detailed or interesting to post on a technical theme so it was quite a welcome divergence from the usual sprint work recently when we started having some Puppet performance issues. First up, like most people working at big corporations I can't give you any figures that might give away numbers of servers or anything else sensitive but…