Hi! My name is Hugh Jamieson and I am the Hadoop Principle Engineer at OCLC.org, a non-profit org that serves libraries around the world. We are heavily invested in big data to support the data processes our community needs, processes that previously used to take months to complete! We manage library information at all levels and support sharing of resources at cloud scale. We have a considerable investment in HBase and are true believers. Like many organizations, we are struggling with the appetite our org has for big data and the velocity at which new projects arrive. We have many clusters arranged around geographical and organizational boundaries, and managing these little beauties is a real chore. We are looking for ways to improve our velocity getting new features and tools into production. We have some roll-your-own utilities for cluster management that simply do not scale. So, we are looking at CM in the hope that it will help us speed up our deployments and make them much less complex. Like other big data fans, I have no life and seldom see the sun. JK; I love my job. I stumbled upon Hadoop 5 years ago and was completely hooked on its design and capabilities. I have travelled thru many environments, from mainframe to SGI, and I can say I am a total Hadoop fan-boy. Such a nerd. In my spare time I like to evangelize Scala and Spark, Streaming, performance, reactive programming, and immutability. My favorite color is blue. I have my own cluster in my basement. Yeah, I'm that sad.
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