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Solving Hadoop Problems, For Fun and Profit

Things move quickly in the Hadoop world, and keeping up can be hard to do. Just ask Chris Wensel, the creator of the popular open source development tool Cascading and CTO at Concurrent. While Wensel spends many hours ke Read more…

Cascading Now Supports Tez–Spark and Storm Up Next

Concurrent, the company behind the open source Cascading framework, today unveiled a major update that will allow its customers to migrate their Hadoop applications from using MapReduce to use the new Apache Tez engine, Read more…

Hortonworks Keen on Cascading-Tez Combo

In the future, it will be easier to build big data applications, and they'll run faster and utilize more real-time data than today's apps, too. Two vendors working to make that future a reality, Hortonworks and Concurrent, today announced they'll work together to build and assemble the next generation of Hadoop apps running on YARN, Tez, and Apache Spark. Read more…

Shining a Light on Hadoop’s ‘Black Box’ Runtime

Let's face it: Writing MapReduce processes is not very fun. That's the main reason that the Cascading framework is gaining such a big following--because it abstracts away the difficult part of MapReduce with an easy-to-use Java API and library. With today's launch of a new product called Driven, the company behind Cascading is enabling users to instrument the data analytic apps developed with Cascading, in pursuit of faster troubleshooting and higher performance. Read more…

Concurrent Cascades Into Funding Round

Concurrent, a startup company based in San Francisco, has caught on in the big data space with their open source product Cascading. Investors have started to notice, as Concurrent has raised $4 million after a Series A round of funding. Read more…

Cascading into Hadoop with SQL

Today Concurrent, the company behind the open source Cascading framework, announced a new milestone for getting to Hadoop from SQL. We spoke with Chris Wensel, the company's CTO and founder about what this means for the community that... Read more…

Cascading into Hadoop’s Golden Era

One of the most persistent challenges facing those considering Hadoop is finding developers able to tap into MapReduce to build complex Hadoop applications. This week we talked with the author of the open source project Cascading and CEO and founder of the company that is pushing it forward, Chris Wensel about how Hadoop will be.... Read more…

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