Thanks Josh!
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Josh Wills <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Som, > > Thanks for the great feedback; I am also an admirer of Cascading's user > guide and feel that having one for Crunch would be a great addition. My > reason for not writing one yet is largely selfish, i.e., I write and talk a > lot as part of my day job, and working on Crunch is how I relax. > > That said, the holiday season is upon us in the US, and so I have some > downtime to devote to writing docs. If anyone has any good brain hacks for > forcing oneself into writing, I would be grateful. :) > > Best, > Josh > > > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Som Satpathy <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Josh/all, >> >> It's been a couple of months since my team started using Crunch for our >> mapreduce. It has been a great tool, simplifying may problems and >> increasing productivity. I personally found it quicker to pick up than >> cascading, which I think has a steeper learning curve. My main sources of >> learning crunch so far have been the javadocs, crunch user-list, crunch >> source code, crunch-examples and some online articles explaining how crunch >> works. One place where I found crunch lagging is the need for a user guide >> or how-to documentations, something on the lines of cascading user-guides, >> which I would say has been really useful for its user-base. Is such a >> user-guide coming up soon? That will be of great help for the crunch user >> community. >> >> Thanks, >> Som >> > > > > -- > Director of Data Science > Cloudera <http://www.cloudera.com> > Twitter: @josh_wills <http://twitter.com/josh_wills> >
