I think it's a bit of a shame that the MapReduce concept got the shiny object treatment since I thought it was a nice pragmatic approach to a useful set of problems that are faced all the time and often addressed with ad-hoc programs that make a mess.
People always looked down on those that used Hadoop or somesuch for <1GB of data, but while it wasn't needed from a technology perspective it gave a structure to the project.
Now many places are back in the world of one-off scripts, and I think something of value was lost (even if it was a little ridiculous to fire up a cluster for something Excel or SQLite could handle).
People always looked down on those that used Hadoop or somesuch for <1GB of data, but while it wasn't needed from a technology perspective it gave a structure to the project.
Now many places are back in the world of one-off scripts, and I think something of value was lost (even if it was a little ridiculous to fire up a cluster for something Excel or SQLite could handle).