Closing the loop on this; I just published my holiday project, a new Crunch user guide:
http://crunch.apache.org/user-guide.html Feedback (and fixes!) gratefully received. J On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Som Satpathy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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> >> > > -- Director of Data Science Cloudera <http://www.cloudera.com> Twitter: @josh_wills <http://twitter.com/josh_wills>
