Cloudera Chief Technologist Eli Collins Discusses Streaming, Batch, Business, and Open-Source

Cloudera allows enterprises to leverage their data through its Hadoop platform. Eli Collins is the Chief Technologist at Cloudera.

Topics include:

• changes to Hadoop since Cloudera’s founding
• Cloudera’s usage of Spark, Docker, and other open-source technologies
• how enterprises use batch and streaming together
• Cloudera’s open-source policy
• Should Frito Lay open source its chip-making abilities?
• how collaboration occurs between big, competing companies
• the growth of increasingly vertical managed big data platforms like Confluent
• why career growth is about optimizing for learning

Links:

• Eli Collins on YouTube: “Data is the Application”
• SE Radio Hadoop episode with Philip Zeyliger
• Cloudera’s Open Source Policy
• Eli Collins interview

Jeff