Friday "Term of the week" Series

Term of the Week : YARN

Apache Hadoop YARN (Yet Another Resource Negotiator) is a cluster management technology. It decouples MapReduce’s resource management and scheduling capabilities from the data processing component, enabling Hadoop to support more varied processing approaches and a broader array of applications. YARN, (or sometimes called as MR2), is an extended and an improved version of MR1. It was… Continue reading Term of the Week : YARN

Friday "Term of the week" Series

Term of the Week : Apache Tez

The Apache Tez project is an extensible framework built on top of Apache Hadoop YARN. It is used to process data, that earlier took multiple MR jobs, now in a single Tez job which uses Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) for data processing. It is used for building high performance batch and interactive data processing applications.… Continue reading Term of the Week : Apache Tez

Friday "Term of the week" Series

Term of the Week : Apache Pig

The term Apache Pig  refers to an open source scripting platform by Apache used for analyzing and processing large data sets. It allows users to write complex map reduce problems using a simple scripting language called Pig Latin. Pig translates the Pig Latin script into MapReduce so that it can be executed within YARN for access to a… Continue reading Term of the Week : Apache Pig

Friday "Term of the week" Series

Term of the week : Campaign

The term Campaign or Email Campaign or Marketing Campaign refers to the activity done in order to promote a business, product or a service [Tweet this!]. An Email Campaign uses Email as the medium to create awareness amongst the audience. The aim of a campaign is to reach large number of potential customers or buyers.… Continue reading Term of the week : Campaign

Friday "Term of the week" Series

Term of the week : Responsive Email Design

Image Source The term Responsive Email Design refers to an approach to design emails which aims to provide optimal viewing and interaction experience i.e. easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling, across a wide range of devices (from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones). Related Posts: The Changing Inbox – Responsive Email Design 4… Continue reading Term of the week : Responsive Email Design

Friday "Term of the week" Series

Term of the Week : Agile

The term Agile or Agile Methodology refers to an alternative to traditional project management.Instead of using the typical waterfall model, it uses an incremental or iterative approach called as Sprints. This methodology is given preference over to the traditional methods because it promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, and continuous improvement, and it encourages rapid… Continue reading Term of the Week : Agile