The battle for Hadoop's attention, illuminated

Everybody vies for Hadoop attention, and everyone wants to invite Hadoop to take a rest on its cloud. You would think that Google, being the inventor of it, would have the final say!? - But that is not so, Hadoop is a community project, and a democracy (rule of the people), meritocracy (rule of the committers), or croudsourcing (rule of I-don't-know-who) decides it. Here is our artist's view of this.

Houston Hadoop Meetup - Accumulo by Ravi Mutyala

Here is the Meetup link.

Ravi, as it turned out, is a contributor to Accumulo. He is delivering his lecture to eager Houston Hadoopers.

I am a reviewer on "Practical Data Analysis"

I am a reviewer on a new book, "Practical Data Analysis" published by Packt.