June 15, 2021 marks the 10th anniversary of HPCC Systems as an open source offering in the big data analytics market. Our 10 Year Anniversary Podcast Series showcases members of our HPCC Systems Community commemorating this milestone event. Hosted by Flavio Villanustre, VP Technology and CISO, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, who leads the HPCC Systems open source initiative, this series of interviews highlights how the move to open source has made a positive impact to our users and to the platform through the many contributions from the community. Interviewees include colleagues from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group who were involved from the beginning of the open source movement and others whose role is dedicated to supporting the community. Others include our academic partners and interns who use HPCC Systems in research and in the classroom, and key industry users who base their business model and leverage HPCC Systems as their technology platform. Listen to the stories they share on how the platform has evolved over the years, the success stories from community users who are now advocates and influencers, and announcements on new functionality in the next major release, upcoming training courses, and more.
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Arjuna Chala | Flavio kicks off with the introduction of this new podcast series to commemorate the 10 year anniversary of HPCC Systems as open source. He then welcomes Arjuna Chala as his first guest and one of the key people who helped bring HPCC Systems into the open source community. They begin by discussing how Hadoop was the only known player in the open source big data space and there was very little knowledge in the community about HPCC Systems, and how we overcame that challenge of educating people on what big data really means and emphasizing the efficiency of ECL. The conversation continues with how the terminology evolved along with the platform, and how today, COVID-19 is a classic Data Lake problem and HPCC Systems is a natural fit for drilling into uncover data insights easily and quickly. They conclude with sharing a few examples of customer success stories, including DataSeers, and how these use cases not only help the customer, but also contribute back to the platform – the true beauty of open source! |
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Bob Foreman Richard Taylor | Flavio interviews Sr Software Engineer and ECL instructor, Bob Foreman, along with Sr Consulting Software Engineer and Chief Trainer, Richard Taylor, both with LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group to chat about their experiences in the training world of teaching ECL and HPCC Systems over the past ten years. Full interview recap and recording coming soon. |
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| Dan Camper Senior Architect, HPCC Systems Solutions Lab LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group | In this interview, Flavio speaks with Dan Camper, one of our founding HPCC Systems Community members, who now is an employee of LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, who shares his story on learning and working with the HPCC Systems platform. Full interview recap and recording coming soon. | Recording coming soon |
| David Dasher Chief Technical Officer CPL Learning | Flavio welcomes David Dasher as the guest for this episode. His company was one of the first adopters of HPCC Systems for his business in the hospitality industry. David explains the challenges he faced at the time and how the HPCC Systems platform has helped the growth of his company. Full interview recap and recording coming soon. | Recording coming soon |
Bahar Fardanian | In this episode, Flavio has a chat with Bahar Fardanian, Technology Evangelist, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, whose role was specifically created to support our growing open source HPCC Systems community. Full interview recap and recording coming soon. | Recording coming soon |