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Technical thoughts and musings on data analysis on Azure and other topics

The ultimate showdown of NoSQL destiny!

Sharks and bees and... fast Italians?! If you've been following this blog recently, you'd have...

Date: 09/05/2014

HDInsight working with different storage accounts

Storage accounts - configured and otherwise When you create an HDInsight cluster, whether through...

Date: 09/03/2014

More Blue Coffee - Presto on Azure

Presto! The Facebook team recently open-sourced a very cool distributed query engine that they...

Date: 08/12/2014

Living on the edge - testing without mocking (Part 2)

The (micro-) epic continues... In the first part of this N-part series (where N may or may not equal...

Date: 07/26/2014

Come in - have some Blue Coffee

Initial sips There's an explosion of awesome OSS projects happening in the big data analysis space...

Date: 07/15/2014

Misadventures in immutability

My infatuation Starting I think a few years ago, I began to heavily drink the immutability kool-aid....

Date: 05/12/2014

WASB back stories: Masquerading a key-value store

There are a few excellent articles out there already that introduce the concept of Azure Blob...

Date: 04/22/2014

Merging small files on HDInsight

The situation The following is a drammatically enhanced story inspired by true events It's weird how...

Date: 04/10/2014

Working on Hadoop code on Windows

As a member of the HDInsight team I worked a bit on Hadoop code on Windows and contributed a couple...

Date: 04/09/2014

Analyzing Azure Table Storage data with HDInsight

HDInsight was optimized from the start to be able to quickly analyze data on Azure's blob storage...

Date: 04/04/2014