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Dumbo 0.21 and typedbytes 0.3
I finally took the time to release Dumbo 0.21. All Java code is gone now, and the Python code got split up into submodules to make things more clear and maintainable. The installation of Dumbo itself...
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Getting organized
I created Assembla issue trackers for both Dumbo and Typedbytes a few moments ago. They aren’t quite as powerful as JIRA, but they integrate nicely with GitHub and should be more than sufficient for...
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How to contribute
As part of the attempt to get more organized, this post outlines how to contribute to Dumbo. I might turn this into a wiki page eventually, but a blog post will probably get more attention, and people...
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Talks mentioning Dumbo
Presumably, most of you have seen the slides from my lightning talk about Dumbo at the first HUGUK already, since they’ve been featured fairly prominently on the wiki for quite a while now. However, if...
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Dumbo IP count in C
It doesn’t comply very well with the goal of making it as easy as possible to write MapReduce programs, but Dumbo mappers and reducers can also be written in C instead of Python. I just put an example...
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Powered by Dumbo?
I’ve slowly started taking on the slightly daunting task of writing my Ph.D. dissertation, and I’m considering including a chapter about Dumbo and Hadoop. However, thinking about this made me realize...
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Dumbo on Cloudera’s distribution
Over the last couple of days, I picked up some rumors concerning the inclusion of all patches on which Dumbo relies in the most recent version of Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution. Todd confirmed this to...
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Integration with Java code
Although Python has many advantages, you might still want to write some of your mappers or reducers in Java once in a while. Flexibility and speed are probably the most likely potential reasons. Thanks...
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