Allen Wittenauer on Hadoop: An Interview

I have wanted to run an article about Hadoop performance for a while, and my search for an expert finally paid off. Justin Sheehy, CEO of Basho, suggested that I interview Allen Wittenauer of LinkedIn.

I had naively thought that the way to improve, or at least maintain, Hadoop performance was to monitor the performance of the cluster, but Allen, with experience as both a Hadoop developer and large cluster operator, has very different thoughts on the subject.