In the context of quantum entanglement and time travel – Stargate may be more correct than Star Trek
As a follow up to In the context of quantum entanglement and teleportation – Stargate may be more correct than Star Trek, I’m diving into one of SciFi’s persistent quandaries … Continue reading
Optimizing Joins running on HDInsight Hive on Azure at GFS
.“…to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages…” – Vincent Van Gogh Image … Continue reading
Using Avro with HDInsight on Azure at 343 Industries
By Michael Wetzel, Tamir Melamed, Mark Vayman, Denny Lee Reviewed by Pedro Urbina Escos, Brad Sarsfield, Rui Martins Thanks to Krishnan Kaniappan, Che Chou, Jennifer Yi, and Rob Semsey As … Continue reading
An all too brief stop over in Tainan (台南)
For anyone who regularly visits Taiwan, the city of Tainan can easily be missed with the other three major cites of Taipei, Taichung, and Kaohsiung. Yet that would be a … Continue reading
Seven lessons Chris Hadfield taught us from outer space
Reblogged from National Post | News: After five months in orbit, astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian to command the International Space Station, returned to Earth Monday night. The … Continue reading
Compile and add Hive UDF via ADD JAR in HDInsight on Azure
To compile a Hive UDF and if you have the Hadoop source code, the right way to do this is to use maven with the Hive repository so you can … Continue reading
Add Built-In Hive UDFs on HDInsight Azure
In the last few weeks, I have had a number of customers ping me about how to utilize various Hive UDFs. The first ask was how to use some of … Continue reading
Healthcare Compliance with Big Data and BI
Reblogged from Ayad Shammout's SQL & BI Blog: Healthcare Compliance with Big Data and BI Over the past few years Denny Lee (Technical Principal Program Manager within Microsoft’s SQL Business … Continue reading
Halo 4 and the Flood of Big Data at Big Data Camp / PASS BA Conference
One of the great thing about working with the folks at 343 Industries – Halo developer – is that I get to claim my that playing Halo 4 is part … Continue reading
Updated HDInsight on Azure ASV paths for multiple storage accounts
If you’ve joined the HDInsight Preview – you will notice many new changes including the tight integration with Windows Azure and that HDInsight defaults to ASV. As noted in Why … Continue reading
Why use Blob Storage with HDInsight on Azure
By Brad Sarsfield and Denny Lee One of the questions we are commonly asked concerning HDInsight, Azure, and Azure Blob Storage is why one should store their data into Azure … Continue reading
#PASSBAC – Yahoo!, Big Data, and Microsoft BI: Bigger and Better Together
About three and a half years ago, I had virtually joined the Yahoo! Targeting, Analytics, and Optimization (TAO) Engineering team where we embarked on an incredible journey to create the … Continue reading
Getting Hadoop and protobufs up and running with Elephant Bird on Mac OSX Mountain Lion
. “No, not Angry Bird – Elephant Bird!” – said no one . . In a few of my customer projects, we started diving into using protocol buffers (protobufs) as … Continue reading
#PASSBAC – Ensuring Compliance of Patient Data with Big Data and BI
Over the past seven years, Ayad Shammout (@aashamout), Principal Business Intelligence Consultant at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School), and I have worked on … Continue reading
A touch of Shanghai cuisine (in this case, in Taichung 台中)
When I’m in Taiwan – it’s all about the Taiwanese small eats (台灣小吃). These little shops (you cannot even call them restaurants) line alley ways and markets have some of … Continue reading
