Just a girl in Tech

I don't know about you, but I always like to read the white papers that originate OpenSource projects (when available of course :) ). I have been working with BigData quite a lot lately and this area is mostly dominated by Apache OpenSource projects.  So, naturally (given the nerd that I am) I tried to investigate their history. I created a list of articles and companies that originated most BigData Apache projects. Here it is! Hope you guys find it interesting too. :) Apache Hadoop  Based on: Google MapReduce and GFS  Papers: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/mapreduce-osdi04.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/gfs-sosp2003.pdf Apache Spark   Created by: University of California, Berkeley  Papers:  http://people.csail.mit.edu/matei/papers/2012/nsdi_spark.pdf http://people.csail.mit.edu/matei/papers/2010/hotcloud_spark.pdf http://peo...

Building and testing Hbase 0.94.3 in Linux (RedHat and Sles) I came across with a error a couple of times, and solved it with 3 different approaches that I think might be good to share. Several testcases were failing due to it, such as TestCatalogTrackerOnCluster and TestLogRollAbort. I ran  mvn clean compile package , and got the following error: java.io.IOException: Shutting down at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.MiniHBaseCluster.init(MiniHBaseCluster.java:203) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.MiniHBaseCluster.<init>(MiniHBaseCluster.java:76) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseTestingUtility.startMiniHBaseCluster(HBaseTestingUtility.java:632) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseTestingUtility.startMiniCluster(HBaseTestingUtility.java:606) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseTestingUtility.startMiniCluster(HBaseTestingUtility.java:554) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseTestingUtility.startMiniCluster(HBaseTestingUtility.java:541) at org.apache.giraffa.TestRestartGiraffa.beforeClass(Tes...