Interviews

• Dean Wampler on Scalding, NoSQL, Scala, Functional Programming and Big Data

  Dean Wampler explains Scalding and the other Hadoop support libraries, the return of SQL, how (big) data is the killer application for functional programming, Java 8 vs Scala, and much more.

  Dean Wampler

  on Dec 16, 2013

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• Billy Newport Discusses Parallel Programming in Java

  Billy Newport talks to InfoQ about the need for higher level abstraction to do parallel programming with multi-core systems effectively. The interview explores some approaches taken with MapReduce products such as Cascading and Pig for a Hadoop cluster, explores the limitations of the actor model and message passing, and touches on IBM's WebSphere eXtreme Scale (ObjectGrid) product.

  Billy Newport

  on Apr 16, 2010

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