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.
Picture the scene: you have a new project to start working on and deliver in a relatively short amount of time. You have done lots of research, know the problem to be solved, have worked diligently on whittling down the scope to just the bare elements that will prove or disprove the utility of the idea. You know how long it will take to build a first iteration, have a pretty good idea of how to…
This post title is inspired by this Google Plus post, although I've been meaning to write this post for a few days anyway (it's just a catchier title to describe the same thing). I'm not a data scientist, analyst or even a hard-code Hadoop user by any stretch of the imagination, but on occasion I need to do some log analysis when there is simply too much data to force through Awk (as much as I…