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Bringing the Unix Philosophy to Big Data by Bryan Cantrill: FutureStack13
Bryan Cantrill presents Manta, an object store with in-situ compute that lets tools like grep, awk, and sed run map-reduce style over huge data. He frames it as bringing the Unix philosophy to big data.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as an elegant argument for simple Unix tools replacing heavyweight Hadoop-style pipelines.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- New Relic
- Topic
- unix philosophy for big data
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2022
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From the original HN conversations
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This article echoes a talk Bryan Cantrill gave two years ago: [VIDEO] It's about how Joyent took the concept of a UNIX pipeline as a true powertool and built a distributed version atop an object filesystem with some little map/reduce syntactic sugar to replace Hadoop …
notpeter on Hacker News · 2015-01
In Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop clusterThey're good points, but from the philosophical point The Unix Way , systemd leaves some things to desire. Is there a modern Unix way? I don't see a lot of exploring in this area/side, but I see a lot of this is the way it's …
erhardm on Hacker News · 2014-10
In Why pro-systemd and anti-systemd people will never get along
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