On Thursday, August 07, 2014 10:36:35 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > Which operating systems does you Hadoop systems run on top of? > > We use RedHat, although we make a fair amount of custom RPMs. It's just > too much having to deal with Gentoo while maintaining high performance > filesystems and schedulers, which are apparently a real pain.
If you already make custom RPMs, why not build binary packages for a Gentoo based cluster? > > Whilst research, I ran across a FAT PAYCHECK at a startup for Hadoop > > expertise (California) : "Extremely competitive pay: 150-175K base > salary, large bonus plan, and a generous equity stake" I'm wondering what "Unlimited vacation policy" actually means. > Lolz, a few of the full time staff regularly get headhunted for similar > positions. I'm still a student and would like to finish the degree, > though, so no high paying jobs for me yet. Good decision. -- Joost
