As a followup to my initial post regarding Apache Pig’s inability to quickly load many small files in Pig 0.10 and newer, I wanted to share a simple fix that worked for me courtesy of in-depth research by Amazon Support Team (+ Engineers). Basically around Pig 0.10.0, PigStorage builds a hidden schema file in an… Continue reading
Sometimes I have data that is simply too large to store on one volume uncompressed, but I need to run processes on it. In my recent use case, I had one large Tar GZIPPED file that decompressed into many smaller tar gzipped files, which then decompressed into two column text (both strings). I did not… Continue reading
Sometimes we want parallel processing, but don’t want to pay the cost of ensuring proper multi-threaded handling. Because who wants to spend an extra 30 minutes setting up threads, ensuring race condition safety, et al just to save a few minutes? If you have access to “xargs,” you have access to a built-in utility that… Continue reading
A simple and tasty explanation of the MapReduce process: Start with a bowl of 4 colored Jelly Beans (Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow). You don’t know exactly how many JBs are in the bowl, nor do you know how many of each JBs are in the bowl. But naturally you want to know. Because why… Continue reading