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…