Totally agree with Amit.I am doing bench-marking with processing the in-depth
Linear Road stream data rather than bench-marking WordCount .WordCount provides
you great starting matrices for what its supposed to benefit us.You need to
target your own"processing space" if I am using the right wording to move on
with the right technology for you.Cheers
From: Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 12:49 AM
Subject: Re: Talking About Beam
Full agree with Amit.
Good job Jesse !
Regards
JB
On 06/15/2016 09:37 AM, Amit Sela wrote:
> Great writing Jesse!
>
> From my experience in the last year, working on a stream processing (and
> generally data processing) platform at PayPal, Beam could also offer a
> great approach for large projects - up until now (and in my case as well),
> the process was:
>
> 1. Research and paper analysis of existing frameworks.
> 2. Understand your needs.
> 3. Choose (and commit to) a specific technology - example: Spark.
> 4. Get to work..
>
> I believe Beam could change this into something better, such as:
>
> 1. Understand your needs, and start working on them.
> 2. Combine your research with actually running (your) same code on
> different frameworks - probably better then "WordCount" benchmarks.
> 3. Choose the best framework for you, or choose more than one if the
> benefit is worth the overhead.
> 4. While working on 2 & 3, you keep going forward with your project!
>
> I talked about Beam in Barclays-Techstars Accelerator in Israel last month
> because I totally agree that it's a great starting point for startups, but
> I think this is an example why not just startups :)
>
> Thanks,
> Amit
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 9:58 AM Jesse Anderson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I wrote a piece published on O'Reilly about Beam
>>
>> https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/future-proof-and-scale-proof-your-code?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=lgen&utm_content=data+article+ki&cmp=tw-data-na-article-lgen_tw_article
>> .
>> It gives some of the thoughts and ideas that will help Beam adoption. I
>> suggest reading it to get some ideas for how to talk about Beam at talks
>> and conferences.
>>
>> Before writing the piece, I tested how it resonates with people. These
>> really help people understand why Beam is used and how it solves the future
>> proofing and scale proofing problems small companies face.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jesse
>>
>
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