Yes, there was some messaging early this year (that it seems the Spring folks replicated on their site) which indicated a change in the certification program, but it was determined that the planned changes were being released too fast and did not give enough time for folks already preparing for the existing certification exams to complete them. It is imaginable that the certification program will continue to evolve, but our intention is to ensure adequate time to adjust will be offered whenever any future plans are introduced. Good luck on the HDPCD exam! ... View more

Thank you @Lester Martin That helped! ... View more

You can find them at https://github.com/HortonworksUniversity/DevPH_Labs ... View more

More details can be viewed from the "source" at http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.3/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/HdfsDesign.html ... View more

Hey everyone, I have a somewhat similar question, which I posted here: https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/155681/how-to-defragment-hdfs-data.html I would really appreciate any ideas. cc @Lester Martin @Jagatheesh Ramakrishnan @rbiswas ... View more

Will it be possible to create namespace on the custom hdfs path ? ... View more

Hi Timothy Spann and Geoffrey Shelton Okot, Please look into my ticket (19201). I have not received and response or resolution. Thank you!!! ... View more

Good point. For my Sandbox testing, I decided to just use the steps provided in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40550011/zeppelin-how-to-restart-sparkcontext-in-zeppelin to stop the SparkContext when I need to do something outside of Zeppelin. Not ideal, but working good enough for some multi-framework prototyping I'm doing. ... View more