Apache: Big Data 2015

Following the mantra, “best tool for the job,” you seldom use a single Open Source tool for data processing. The more tools you use, however, the more you start to realize the difficulties of managing dependencies and configuring packages across components, projects, and versions. This is where the Apache Bigtop project and community comes in. Come get an overview of the origins of Apache Bigtop and why organizations like Cloudera, Wandisco, and Amazon Web Services rely on Bigtop for their own bigdata component distribution efforts, and where the project is going post its summer 1.0 release.