Cloudera’s online Hadoop training videos now include two sessions for Apache Pig thanks to some help from Alan Gates at Yahoo.
Apr 15
Pig is an open source platform for analyzing large data sets that works in conjunction with Hadoop clusters and Map-Reduce jobs. They recently announced their 0.20 release featuring a 5X performance gain over the previous version. Check out the details.
Mar 24
The ApacheCon 2009 event is taking place this week in Amsterdam. If you can’t make it to the conference in person, check out the streaming available. Lots of good stuff about managing data in the cloud, hadoop, and more.

