Roaring Elephant

With all the buzz around big data generally, and Hadoop specifically, there's never been a better time for getting started in Hadoop. This episode covers how your two hosts got involved in Hadoop, and also discusses some of the other popular paths into the world of BigData/Hadoop 00:00 Recent events How did your hosts get into Hadoop 04:30 main Topic Driven by individuals vs organisations Online education options Formal training 19:20 With Questions from our Listeners: Isn’t it really difficult? Do you need to know Java? Do you need to know SQL? Will I need to throw everything else in my datacentre out? Can I replace my EDW (Enterprise Data Warehouse)? Do I have to re-write all my ETL (Extract-Transform-Load)? 36:05 End Please use the Contact Form on this blog or our twitter feed to send us your questions, or to suggest future episode topics you would like us to cover.