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Post by bluesnowmonkey » Fri, Nov 05, 2010, 4:20 PM UTC

sanswork wrote: post #54

sabat wrote: post #12

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It's frustrating, isn't it? S4 sounds like it does something cool and useful, and I'd like to know what this is, just for reference at least. But I don't have time to go and figure it out on my own; I'm too busy trying to stay productive.

If you're too busy to spend the time to read the docs to figure out if its useful for yourself. How will you ever find the time to learn the system and implement it into your work processes?

Do you read the docs of every new software product that gets released, in order to see if it's useful to you? No, there aren't enough hours in the day.

Post by rjurney » Fri, Nov 05, 2010, 5:38 PM UTC

olalonde wrote: post #9

sabat wrote: post #3

S4 is a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, partially fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows programmers to easily develop applications for processing continuous unbounded streams of data. I'm sure this is cool and useful technology. At this moment, from the marketing-speak, I have no idea what it does except that it has something to do with volumes of streaming data. Whose data? Is it a service? (Maybe n…

Up voted the story just so more people read your comment. This kind of "marketing-speak" focused on technical details is well too widespread. The project may be technical by nature but there's got to be a higher level way of describing it.

Maybe you should cultivate some fucking respect. Yahoo, which gave us such critical technologies as Hadoop and Pig, just gave us what appears to be a robust distributed stream processing thingamabob. They open sourced it first, and will quickly bring the docs and presentation up to speed. Instead of mouthing off, just say, 'thanks!' or nothing at all.

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