A special bonus! Be sure to stick around after the credits for 'The Making of The Most Reluctant Convert'! Theatres are selling out! Check for new showtimes at CSLewisMovie.com!

Scaling LinkedIn’s Apache Hadoop clusters beyond 10,000 nodes. LinkedInEng engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2021/scal…

Most amusing headline I've seen in a while:
Danville Sets Date For Annual July 4 Parade patch.com/california/dan…

The Doublethinkers tabletmag.com/sections/arts-…

Twitter makes people dumb the same way that Powerpoint makes people dumb.

When you have to reduce your thinking to the bullet points that fit on a screen at 24pt, you squeeze out all the nuance.

We call those tweets, now.

Followers of Jesus: please do not engage in or encourage any forthcoming violence. Do not be present at any violent event. Do not support those who incite, stir up, or organize violence. It will destroy your soul and our common testimony concerning Jesus. bit.ly/NationalisticV…

This is not about politics. This is about our country, about the rule of law, and about the sanctity of human life. russellmoore.com/2021/01/11/the…

If you're looking for a fuller treatment of why Christians need wisdom in how to apply the Bible to public policy, I talk about it here. nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opi…

Amazing recognition for my team (Cloudera Machine Learning): Forrester has released it’s Notebook Based Predictive Analytics & Machine Learning Q3 2020 report with Cloudera named as a Leader in the industry bit.ly/2Fri0BD

Your quarantine coping mechanisms as #StarTrek characters: A thread

Picard:

⭐️Wearing work clothes despite working from home
⭐️Thrilled to not have children around
⭐️Reading Shakespeare for the epic quotes

A Message from President George W. Bush

@TheCalltoUnite

Reorganizing my resume so that the top bullet is 'Successfully found and purchased toilet paper at Costco during pandemic'.

Here's my article up today at The New York Times addressing some of the pro-life questions involved in the Covid-19 crisis: nytimes.com/2020/03/26/opi…

A good read. I'd add that the economics shift. Where company A was too small to build & manage project C alone, the cloud providers are not. It's more economical for them to fork & dominate then to cooperate.

Here are the generations that can be proud of their father and grandfather.

The bits keep coming from @Cloudera... this time Cloudera Data Platform now available on Microsoft Microsoft Azure. Check it out at #MSIgnite , Orlando.
We keep shipping... so proud of the entire team!

OK Google, you don’t have to stick apostrophes in “its” all the time just because everyone else does. Some of us actually know when to use them. #artificialstupidity

So, Apache Atlas continues to make rapid strides in the world of 'governance'. Except, this time it's for governing Machine Learning models - beyond just data. Here is more:
blog.cloudera.com/creating-an-op…
Also, the Apache - The ASF jira for your reading pleasure:
issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AT…

So, I come up for air and explore several things 'Hadoop': the existential question of what it was, is and will be, a horizon which includes the public cloud, talk about Cloudera, lessons learnt (some painfully) and more...

medium.com/@acmurthy/hado…