Yup! It'd be great if we can start trying to get Zeppelin on board. They have just sent in their SGA, so I believe the first release might be coming soon too ;) Although, for the experiments we can just probably work off their github bits.
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 04:34PM, RJ Nowling wrote: > I didn't realize that you and Roman were involved with Zeppelin until I saw > your emails on the Zeppelin dev list today. > > I see a lot of big data community interest in more user-friendly interfaces > and visualization software -- following what the Python community has done > with iPython notebook and friends. Unfortunately, many of the popular > solutions are proprietary. I would love to push on open source efforts and > open that area up. > > Zeppelin could make a great addition to BigTop. It would provide BigTop > with a competitive feature while also raising the profile of Zeppelin. > > Zeppelin also needs more testing and cleaning up. I've had trouble getting > it working (see the Zeppelin user mailing list). Good opportunity to get > in there and start hacking on the code. > > From Red Hat's perspective, packaging Zeppelin will require some work. > Fedora, et al. require that each JAR is provided by a single RPM. > Likewise, we'd have to work on splitting out the Node.js dependencies so > they can depend on Fedora-available JARs. I realize that BigTop's > packaging isn't so strict, but I think packaging in BigTop is a good first > step, and we can work with the Zeppelin community to work out any kinks in > their build system related to packaging. > > I see a win-win situation. I also see an opportunity for BigTop to once > again prove that it's on the cutting edge. > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks RJ! Actually, Zeppelin is quite interesting. If you look at their > > proposal here https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ZeppelinProposal > > it says under Initial Goals > > > > ".... adding Zeppelin distribution to Apache Bigtop" > > > > So, I guess it's mutual interest! Would be nice to hear your thoughts on > > that! > > Thanks, > > Cos > > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 07:49AM, RJ Nowling wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I went to Spark Summit East 2015. Many of the talks emphasized notebooks > > > and visualization products for Spark. My Red Hat team found a few open > > > source alternatives, which I wanted to share for others who might be > > > interested: > > > > > > * Apache Zeppelin (incubating) - https://zeppelin.incubator.apache.org/ > > > * Jove Jupyter - https://github.com/jove-sh/jove-jupyter-frontend > > > * Spark Notebook - https://github.com/andypetrella/spark-notebook > > > > > > We're currently trying to get Apache Zeppelin working. I'll report more > > as > > > I learn more. > > > > > > RJ > >
