An Overview of Scalding
An intro to Scalding1, Twitter’s Scala API for Cascading, by Dean Wampler2:
“There’s not better way to write general-purpose Hadoop MapReduce programs when specialized tools like Hive and Pig aren’t quite what you need.”
Watch the video and slides after below.
✚ At Twitter, the creators of Scalding, different teams use different libraries for dealing with different scenarios.
✚ Dean Wampler is the co-author of the Programming Scala book so his preference for Scala is understandable.
✚ Do you know any other teams or companies using Scalding instead of Cascading or Cascalog?
Original title and link: An Overview of Scalding (©myNoSQL)
