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Bringing the Unix Philosophy to Big Data by Bryan Cantrill: FutureStack13

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Databases & storageOperating systems & kernelsData science & statistics

What it is

Bryan Cantrill presents Manta, an object store with in-situ compute that lets tools like grep, awk, and sed run map-reduce style over huge data. He frames it as bringing the Unix philosophy to big data.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as an elegant argument for simple Unix tools replacing heavyweight Hadoop-style pipelines.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “The Bryan Cantrill talk is definitely worth your time”

    Distributed UNIX pipelines replacing Hadoop jobs

    notpeter, 2015-01 · Strong recommendation · in “Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster”

  2. “So elegantly solving problems”

    Elegant problem solving with simple tools

    erhardm, 2014-10 · Recommendation · in “Why pro-systemd and anti-systemd people will never get along”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: bryan cantrill, manta, unix, map-reduce, object storage

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