In this episode, we discuss this fortnight's interesting big data news that caught our eye and then go on to discuss the basics around authentication in Hadoop for what is the first in a series of episodes that we'll be doing over the next few months on the broad topic of security.

00:00 Recent events

Dave:

The new science behind customer loyalty

http://insights.principa.co.za/the-new-science-behind-customer-loyalty http://insights.principa.co.za/infographic-creating-a-data-driven-customer-loyalty-strategy

5 great charts in 5 lines of R code

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/08/five-great-charts-in-5-lines-of-r-code-each.html

Using big data to create value for customers, not just target them

https://hbr.org/2016/08/use-big-data-to-create-value-for-customers-not-just-target-them

Jhon:

Linux turns 25 (25 August 1991 )

https://www.linux.com/news/linus-torvalds-reflects-25-years-linux http://web.archive.org/web/20100104211620/http://www.linux.org/people/linus_post.html

Hadoop 2.7.3 a minor release in the 2.x.y release line, building upon the previous stable release 2.7.2

http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.3/

Specification work related to the Hadoop Compatible Filesystem (HCFS) effort. Hadoop in the cloud/as a service getting a lot of attention lately

http://hortonworks.com/blog/making-elephant-fly-cloud/ http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2016/08/analytics-and-bi-on-amazon-s3-with-apache-impala-incubating/ https://vision.cloudera.com/analytic_database_in_cloud/ http://venturebeat.com/2016/08/25/sap-altiscale/

Facebook open sources image-recognition AI with live video in mind

https://research.facebook.com/blog/learning-to-segment/

NoSQL Databases: a Survey and Decision Guidance

https://medium.baqend.com/nosql-databases-a-survey-and-decision-guidance-ea7823a822d#.c037d5jbj

Committer criteria from Apache

https://hadoop.apache.org/committer_criteria.html

Maybe they should just have referred to our podcast! :)

Episode 11 - Interview with Community Award Winner Venkatesh Sellappa

40:20 Security in Hadoop - Authentication

What is Authentication? Why is it important? When should I do it? Hadoop is insecure by default without strong Authentication Kerberos Active Directory, MIT Kerberos and FreeIPA

01:07:49 End

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