Hello and welcome, I am Xavier Morera and I am very passionate about helping developers understand enterprise search and Big Data.
And today, I welcome you to the first post of the Big Data Inc Series (which will soon be joined with Big Data TV).
So, you might be wondering… what is the Big Data Inc Series? Easy. It is a series of bite size posts that explain enterprise search and Big Data.
What is my objective? At a high level, each post will take between 5 to 7 minutes, and will provide an overview of one particular topic – and only one – to give you enough information to understand what is the purpose of a particular platform, language, project or anything else that touches enterprise search and Big Data
Why am I doing this? First of all, I am really passionate about search and Big Data… like a kid on Christmas day. I do have to agree that I have my preferred platforms, languages, and projects. However, it does not hurt to have an idea of what each one is about.
Also, why are the posts so short? Well, I could go on and on for hours – believe me, or at least my friends who say that a 45 minute presentation for me is just like warming up – but the point is that I want to be very concise, straight to the point, and give you an overall idea. The Big Data Series is not meant to be tutorials. For trainings I have several courses at Pluralsight which include topics like Spark, Cloudera CDH, Solr, Hue, Hive, JSON, code profiling and more – as well as having done and helped on trainings for Cloudera, Microsoft/HP/Intel.
I will cover a topic, give you a general idea, and let you decide if this is a technology that could be useful in your toolbelt. In many cases, I will point you in the direction of where to go learn more or I will tell you a story or two of how these technologies are used in real life.
So please join me on this journey with the Big Data Series. In our next post, we will talk about how Big Data started, with Hadoop. Also don’t forget to subscribe to be notified of new released posts, videos, like and share. Also, you can follow the links below in the description.
And as we Costa Ricans say, pura vida!