I think Mike Olson is great at explaining this in simple terms, and I respect him for being so patient with this interviewer, who is so insecure. Too many interruptions, so needy... Well done to Mr Olson for being so tolerant, and for explaining this topic in a way even I can understand.
However, I do appreciate that the interviewer constantly asked Mike to explain some of the tech terms that he was using. Tremendously helpful for someone like me who's trying to understand the Big Data space. Overall, I think the interviewer did a great job!!
This was very well done. We're starting to use Hadoop now and this has helped me understand the big picture. Mike Olson is a a big brain guy AND a class act, unlike many tech CEOs with inflated egos big attitude and major agendas. I'd work for them.
That was an excellent intro to Hadoop and Cloudera. I think the reporter did a pretty good job of asking the right technical questions and interjecting the correct terms as such Mike can talk about it. Bit surprised that some folks did not like it.
Mike did a good job, it's not easy talk about new stuff...i like his talking about new tech comparing with standard tech, he uses examples very well, very good communicator!
Awesome interview! I thoroughly enjoyed the CEO's explanations which were simplified to laymen's terms. Also, I thought the interviewer did a fantastic job in asking good questions. The whole video was very easy and interesting to watch. Kudos to Robert Scoble!
A great intro to your company, hadoop and new BIG Data technologies and players. I would strongly recommed for someone to begin the domain understanding. Thanks to youtube for getting us such a powerful presentation to us. Additionally I would have liked to hear few case studies.
Wow, thank you for posting this.Very helpful and informative.Mike Olson is so smart to answer questions without a second to think. He just answer what's flowing into his mind without any delays like Hadoop. LOL.Anyway, I found him and the interviewer are doing a cool and informal way of interview.It seems that the CEO is just a cool geek, doesn't care if it's interrupting him or whatsoever. see him enjoying answering questions and sharing what's in his mind.I encounter great people like this guy
Thanks so lot for the video. The CEO did awesome job,very well explanation, simple , make Hadoop or topic of "No SQL" become very interesting for starter.
I was just pointed to this and the mention of my name - blast from the past! Thanks for the mention - this seems so long ago in internet years! I'm working on a project right now that may put me right back into this space (to an extent). Crossing my fingers - it involves both social media and Bitcoin :-)
Very nice explaination. IMHO the interviewer could do much better by not interrupting. Anyway, Mike Olson did very well answering the questions and get along with the 'interviewer' with patience.
What I love here is that the hadoop community is staying away from taking on Oracle directly claining you still need an rdbms for structured data. But one of these days we will wake up and realize that map-reduce is just as compelling for tabular data as it is for unstructured, and it's game on with ora/db2/sql server!!
agreed... interviewer needs to learn that interrupting people is distracting and not good practice. A good interviewer is good at getting the other person to talk. I think this CEO was actually very patient and maintained composure. I probably would have been annoyed as hell... every time I start to really get into explaining something getting interrupted.
Really good interview. One note however. Interviewer could have been more patient. I think it was Larry King who said, "I never learned anything while talking." But still, great information.
Notes: Yahoo - 25,000 server, Facebook 2 petabytes, Google-100,000 jobs for 10,000 applications, Rackspace-study Mail logs. NoSQL, memCachDB, MySQL Drizzle, Distributed Hash Table. Hive - implementation which allows you to talk to Hadoop cluster and kick off MapReduce jobs in parallel to answer questions. HBase - abstraction sitting on top of HDFS to allow filtering. Fantastic Video. Data is a company's most valuable resource - sesidw dot com.
Why the childish hatred towards the interviewer?! He did an excellent job at leading Mr. Olson with questions which made the interview seem more like a conversation.
