A Collection Of Interesting Content Around Hadoop And Related Projects

Hadoop Codebase Visualization
A visual history of the Hadoop code base. It is a neat way of visualizing who is behind the Hadoop source code and how the project code base grew over the years.

Hadoop Map Reduce and Big Data Sets
Sohrab Modi, VP, Advanced Technologies of Sun Microsystems, and Chris K Wensel, of Scale Unlimited, chat about the big picture of Hadoop, Cascading, and related technologies and about Sun’s interest and activities in the Hadoop space.

Katta in production - An experience report
Stefan Groschupf describes an in-production system that can process hundreds of millions of events, producing trend alerts and reports, using Hadoop and Katta, a distributed indexing system. The talk reflects experience collected within one year of a multi-million dollar project built with Hadoop and Katta.

Hadoop Survey
In late Fall and Winter 2008 we asked the Hadoop community to participate in a survey that reflects how Hadoop is used.The Hadoop survey results are also available as PDF.

Hadoop Live CD
George Porter from Sun develop a Hadoop Live CD in cooperation with Scale Unlimited. “This project initial CD development tool aims to provide new users to Hadoop with a fully functional Hadoop cluster that is easy to start up and use. We have built a bootable CD-ROM image that provides users with a three-node virtual Hadoop cluster using OpenSolaris Zones.” More information and the iso can be found here.