Building open source Hadoop
In 2006, Doug Cutting joined Yahoo in a team led by Eric Baldeschweiler (also known as eric14 or e14). This team had grid computing experts and users. Eric was in charge of figuring out how to build a next generation search grid computing framework for web searches. Here is a quote from a Yahoo employee at that time that described the situation prevailing at that time:
"Fortunately, and I remember the day well, Eric14 assembled the merry bunch of Grid (then called 'Utility Computing') engineers, and started down the path of rethinking the strategy - focussing on figuring out how to make Hadoop functional, featureful, and robust, instead." (Kumar, 2011)
The new team split out of Hadoop from Nutch with the leadership ...
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