Google must be Beaming as Apache announces its new top-level projects

The Apache Software Foundation has today announced two new top-level projects, Apache Beam and Apache Eagle. Apache Beam is yet another technology birthed by Google's work on data processing, and its roots can be traced back to Google's initial MapReduce system which revolutionised the science of distributed data processing …

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn, missed it!

Right before you published, Google announced that Beam will be discontinued Jan. 11th.

[frank ly]

Re: Damn, missed it!

I'll believe that when I read about it on my Google Reader news feeds.

[maccy]

Beam and Eagle. Apache. birthed revolutionised MapReduce data processing Dataflow Apache Spark Cloudera streaming-first framework Apache Beam Dataflow SDK software development KIT KIT KIT semantics "used within Google" Beam Flink Spark Apex open-source stacking Beam on top of Spark or Flink lowest-common-denominator problem "Still, it's an option" orders of magnitude promiscuously software engineer at Google and the project management committee chair execution engines excited state of the art Eagle Hadoop and Spark platforms analytics tool (tool hah ha) Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL yarn applications, JMX metrics, and daemon logs monitoring and alerting large-scale security monitoring generic solution domain experts

No, this is not spam. It's cut & paste - in order - from the article. Apart from the KIT KIT KIT and (tool hah ha) which I just thought added a little spice.

[Anonymous Coward]

The best words

Those were roughly my thoughts, too, maccy.

We have the words, the best words, so many words, and, you know, this article will be great, the best article, with the most amazing words, but actually it seems to say nothing very much comprehensible at all?

I'm not really very much the wiser at all as to what these projects actually do after reading the article, I'm afraid.

[Dr Who]

Agreed. Smacks of an article written by someone who has no understanding whatsoever of the technology in question but at least has had a go at reassembling the PR blurb in order to justify their fee. The result is unfortunately gobbledegook.