Category Archives: Hadoop

Create your Own Company as a means to gain experience

Here’s an excerpt I found very interesting from John Sonmez’s newly released book, ‘the Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide’. It is a good read and I recommend it. I think I might try this option, and I think you guys … Continue reading

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How to start EMR on AWS

NOTES FROM USING SPARK in the HADOOP ECOSYSTEM by Rick Morrow Starting EMR on AWS Objective In this lab, you’ll use Amazon Web Services to set up a 3 node Elastic MapReduce (EMR) cluster which you can then use for … Continue reading

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Notes From Lynda.com Hadoop Fundamentals

  NOTES FROM Hadoop Fundamentals Lynn Langit Why Move Away from Relational Databases? Understanding the limits of relational database management systems The downfalls of relational databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, or My SQL is that as more and more … Continue reading

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HDP Sandbox Startup Problems?

When I installed the Hortonworks HDP 2.2 Sandbox in my VMware Player, I had a problem after connecting to the first web page indicated on the startup screen. That web page had bad links.

The quick and dirty solution is to explicitly include the port number 8888 in your URL.

If you want to see more detailed description of the problem (as I saw it) and the workaround (that worked for me), go to this blog entry:

https://kevpfowler.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/bad-links-in-hortonworks-hdp-2-2-sandbox-startup/

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