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Introducing Wormhole: Dockerized Presto & Alluxio setups for blazing fast analytics

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This is a guest blog by Ashwin Sinha with an original blog source. This blog introduces Wormhole— open source Dockerized solution for deploying Presto & Alluxio clusters for blazing fast analytics on file system (we use S3, GCS, OSS). When it comes to analytics, generally people are hands-on in writing SQL queries and love to analyse data which resides in a warehouse (e.g. MySQL database). But as data grows, these … Continued

Effective Analytical Pipelines on AWS Using EMR, Alluxio, and S3

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This article describes my lessons from a previous project which moved a data pipeline originally running on a Hadoop cluster managed by my team, to AWS using EMR and S3. The goal was to leverage the elasticity of EMR to offload the operational work, as well as make S3 a data lake where different teams can easily share data across projects.

Running Alluxio On HashiCorp Nomad

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I recently worked on a PoC evaluating Nomad for a client. Since there were certain constraints limiting what was possible on the client environment, I put together something “quick” on my personal workstation to see what was required for Alluxio to play nice with Nomad.

Four Different Ways to Write to Alluxio

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Alluxio is a new layer on top of under storage systems that can not only improve raw I/O performance but also enables applications flexible options to read, write and manage files. This article focuses on describing different ways to write files to Alluxio, realizing the tradeoffs in performance, consistency, and also the level of fault tolerance compared to HDFS.