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Using Python to implement a queue publisher and subscriber with a polling back-off delay algorithm.

I recently come across Python. It's a wonderful language with many packages for statistics,...

Date: 03/21/2015

Taking the post a little further: "Generate movie recommendations using Apache Mahout with HDInsight" .

The post Generate movie recommendations using Mahout is a good introduction to Mahout. I've seen...

Date: 02/08/2015

Comments on the post - Manage Hadoop clusters in HDInsight using Azure PowerShell

Overall, the post on managing a Hadoop cluster in HDInsight with Azure PowerShell was great. I...

Date: 01/18/2015

An overview of Hadoop Distributed File System, HCatalog, Hive and map-reduce.

Yet another step in my journey learning about big data. Below are some things I've learned along the...

Date: 12/21/2014

Getting started with big data (HDInsight, Hadoop, etc.)

I'm currently focused on learning about big data. Over a series of posts I'll show the path I took...

Date: 12/21/2014