Re: Calling webservices in Hadoop

At the cloudera course, they said this is a bad idea, but im working at a place that does just this... In the reducers. the answer is Yes You can make http requests in Hadoop jobs. I'd like to know more about others thoughts on this Is it customary ? Jay Vyas MMSB UCHC On Jan 10,

Non local mapper .. Is it worth it?

would it be better if that remote (m2) now simply processed both files (f1, f2) in turn? Jay Vyas http://jayunit100.blogspot.com