Mostly True
Technical thoughts and musings on data analysis on Azure and other topics
The ultimate showdown of NoSQL destiny!
Sharks and bees and... fast Italians?! If you've been following this blog recently, you'd have...
Author: Mostafa Elhemali MSFT Date: 09/05/2014
HDInsight working with different storage accounts
Storage accounts - configured and otherwise When you create an HDInsight cluster, whether through...
Author: Mostafa Elhemali MSFT Date: 09/03/2014
More Blue Coffee - Presto on Azure
Presto! The Facebook team recently open-sourced a very cool distributed query engine that they...
Author: Mostafa Elhemali MSFT Date: 08/12/2014
Living on the edge - testing without mocking (Part 2)
The (micro-) epic continues... In the first part of this N-part series (where N may or may not equal...
Author: Mostafa Elhemali MSFT Date: 07/26/2014
Come in - have some Blue Coffee
Initial sips There's an explosion of awesome OSS projects happening in the big data analysis space...
Author: Mostafa Elhemali MSFT Date: 07/15/2014
Misadventures in immutability
My infatuation Starting I think a few years ago, I began to heavily drink the immutability kool-aid....
Author: Mostafa Elhemali MSFT Date: 05/12/2014
WASB back stories: Masquerading a key-value store
There are a few excellent articles out there already that introduce the concept of Azure Blob...
Author: Mostafa Elhemali MSFT Date: 04/22/2014
Merging small files on HDInsight
The situation The following is a drammatically enhanced story inspired by true events It's weird how...
Author: Mostafa Elhemali MSFT Date: 04/10/2014
Working on Hadoop code on Windows
As a member of the HDInsight team I worked a bit on Hadoop code on Windows and contributed a couple...
Author: Mostafa Elhemali MSFT Date: 04/09/2014
Analyzing Azure Table Storage data with HDInsight
HDInsight was optimized from the start to be able to quickly analyze data on Azure's blob storage...
Author: Mostafa Elhemali MSFT Date: 04/04/2014