Fast data processing so far has been a purely technically driven topic. It had a clear focus on mastering technology to provide reliable and robust frameworks for working with moving data. From that perspective things made pretty good progress as hard challenges like “exactly once processing” were solved (see the data Artisans blog on how…
Read moreFrom Data At Rest To Data In Motion – Reasons From A High-Level Business Perspective
Clive Humby coined in 2006 the phrase “data is the new oil”. As this was already true for companies like Google and Facebook it was the promotion of Hadoop into the state of an Apache top level project in 2008 which made a technology accessible to a broader public to turn his vision into global…
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