What's the difference between Schema on read vs. Schema on write? How did Schema on read shift the way data is stored? Since the inception of Relational Databases in the 70's, schema on write has be the defacto procedure for storing data to … [Continue reading]
Transcript How to change the password in OneFS 8.0 . Alright . oh so we’ll start here are management console want to navigate to the access tab and then the memberships in roles once when our memberships and rolls we can select a provider to change … [Continue reading]
My newest Pluralsight course has just released Analyzing Machine Data with Splunk. It might appear as a step outside of the Hadoop ecosystem but read on to find out how it actually ties back. The past 6 months I've taken a deep dive into the … [Continue reading]
Setting Up One Time Sync in Isilon's OneFS Transcript Ever wanted to set up a SyncIQ job and OneFS? Well follow along in this tutorial here we are in our production cluster you can see that we have the name hints and cluster for this Isilon … [Continue reading]
Another Isilon Quick Tip, where I walk through setting up NFS export in OneFS. Setting up NFS exports is one of the baseline skills needed when working with OneFS. NFS or Network File System is a protocol that allows file based … [Continue reading]
Learn how to setup SmartQuotas with this Isilon Quick tips Episode. Transcript Hello and welcome back to another episode of Isilon quick tips today I want to talk about SmartQuotas. Smartquotas gives you the ability to set quotas on how much data … [Continue reading]
It all started with me trying to learn to use the Pig Subtract Function for my Pig Eval Series. It will be fairly straight forward, use this function to compare two data sets Hadoop right? Well it didn't exactly workout as planned. Pig's Subtract … [Continue reading]
Where do I start with DevOps? Working in IT Operations is hard like really hard. Most of you who have been doing for years already know this. Technical debt seems to pile up and developer/operations are constantly being asked to more with less. Most … [Continue reading]
Moving data around in Hadoop is easy when using the Hue interface but when it comes to learning to do this from the command line it gets hard. In my Pluralsight course HDFS Getting Started you can get up to speed on moving data around from the … [Continue reading]
Hadoop runs on top of a Linux operating system but the data resides inside the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). This concept is can be confusing if you expect to upload files to your local directory in Linux and run a MapReduce job over that … [Continue reading]
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time to plant one is today. Okay so what does this old Chinese proverb have to do with learning Hadoop? Let's break down the proverb. Trees are awesome when they are huge and provide … [Continue reading]
How many fingers am I holding up? 1....2...3... Three is the answer I was looking for. Learning to count might sound trivial but is something you do everyday. What happens when you need to count variables in your data set? If you are … [Continue reading]