How to avoid passwords in your Sqoop scripts

For all those who use Sqoop and are looking at ways to manage the password issue... here is a good article on use of JCEKS https://www.mapr.com/blog/key-tips-managing-passwords-sqoop

SQL on Hadoop options

SQL on Hadoop from nvvrajesh

Amazon QuickSight now can be used to analyze your billing data

AWS now is using the new QuickSight product to allow customers to analyze their data usage. Here is the latest article from AWS. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/08/aws-cost-and-usage-report-data-is-now-easy-to-upload-directly-into-amazon-redshift-and-amazon-quicksight/

CASK 3.5 released

This seems to be a good Data Lake tool and is open source. Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/caskdata/webinar-whats-new-in-cdap-35

Big Data Roles and Responsibilities

Here is a good list of Roles of Responsibilities for Big Data: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/11/different-data-science-roles-industry.html