endre's blog

Here is a brief overview of the leading open source Big Data technologies currently available on the market and their functions.

Got money for cheap computers and need a highly scalable Big Data storage system? Your answer might just be Hadoop!

It's been a month now since I parted ways with Digital Insight and I'm finally getting around to dropping some notes to my blog. Haven't had really any time off since I started there so it was refreshing to take a break, which wasn't really all that much of a break because it involved moving and sorting out my living space. Whatever it was, it wasn't like the previous 18 months, and things were definitely much less stressful.

The other day my mother brought a pink sheet or OTC stock to my attention saying she is considering investing and how the price of this stock is going through the roof. First I just tried to tell her this type of investment with no or very low liquidity is for suckers and experts. OTC companies have no or little financial reporting requirements. If you're dumb enough to be suckered into investing into one without verifying what is behind the claims made then it's your fault if you loose your money.

I'm thinking about getting into insurance sales. It sounds pretty lucrative and there are some big names such as Prudential, Aflac, New York Life, and TransAmerica that have been trying to get me on board to sell their products, but it's straight commission which as a sales person it's lucrative, but how will that cover my bills this month or the next? My current dilemma...

Ads will be down due to an upgrade for 12-24 hours accross all sites. Doing a clean install that should clear up some of the existing delivery issues we had.