Researchers have discovered a new malware attack campaign that exploits misconfigurations in Apache Hadoop and Flink, two technologies for processing big data sets and data streams. The attackers ...

A new report released today by researchers at cloud-native security company Aqua Security Software Ltd. warns of a new attack targeting Apache Hadoop and Flink applications. The attack is described as ...

The quest to replace Hadoop’s aging MapReduce is a bit like waiting for buses in Britain. You watch a really long time, then a bunch come along at once. We already have Tez and Spark in the mix, but ...

"Learning by example" is a series where we learn the basics of a technology with a simple example project. This series is both for my own personal learning (I often learn a lot by putting these ...

Ever since the days of complex event processing, we've been predicting that the future of streaming was bright. Nearly five years ago we stated, "The same data explosion that created the urgency for ...

Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop are both popular, open-source data science tools offered by the Apache Software Foundation. Developed and supported by the community, they continue to grow in popularity ...

Previously, we introduced streaming, saw some of the benefits it can bring and discussed some of the architectural options and vendors / engines that can support streaming-oriented solutions. We now ...

Apache Flink is made for applications that continuously apply the same business logic to a series of inputs. That’s most business applications By Fabian Hueske and Stephan Ewen, committers and PMC ...

With the massive amount of data proliferating the Web, companies such as Google and many others are building new technologies to sort it all. Core to that movement is something called MapReduce, a ...