Everything is going to fail. If this is your first time working with or building out a distributed system, the fact that everything is going to fail may seem like an extremely scary concept, but it is one you will always have to keep in mind.
Read MoreI recently read a great article by Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, and Vadim Ogievetsky that showcases the various techniques for visualizing and interacting with diverse data sets. I thought it may be useful to write something similar to showcase the various open source systems that exist in the “big data” space, including Druid, which is an open source data store I work on.
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