Cascading (1)
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Simon Willison's Links (17)
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Cascading. A Java API abstraction layer over Hadoop that lets developers think in terms of pipes and filters rather than map/reduce. The Cascading developers claim that this model is easier to understand and less error prone.
Goodbye MapReduce, Hello Cascading (4)
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Engineering Rapleaf (6)
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We have been doing a lot of batch processing with Hadoop MapReduce lately, and we quickly realized how painful it can be to write MapReduce jobs by hand. Some parts of our workflow require up to TEN MapReduce jobs to execute in sequence, requiring a lot of hand-coordination of intermediate data and execution order. Additionally, anyone who has done really complex MapReduce workflows knows how hard it is to keep “thinking” in MapReduce. Luckily, we ...
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Eric W said:
I just learned about Cascading, which is an alternative to using Map Reduce within Hadoop.
Simple CSS - A Free CSS Authoring Tool (1)
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Deziner Folio (93)
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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a good way to specify the styles of fonts and other page elements on your sites. It makes it easier for you to update styles too, because when done right, you only need to make a single change to update the styles on multiple pages and elements. Simple CSS allows you to easily create Cascading Style Sheets from scratch, and/or modify existing ones, using a familiar point-and-click interface. With Simple ...
