Sometimes you have to admit that the problem you need to solve is hard. Hard problems usually can't be solved by easy solutions. Some examples: > I have far m

Sometimes you have to admit that the problem you need to solve is hard. Hard problems usually can't be solved by easy solutions. Some examples: > I have far more faith in xargs than I do in Hadoop. Me too, but those things are very far from comparable. You can only compare xargs to Hadoop only if you have a Hadoop cluster with one node and I'm really not sure why would anybody use Hadoop like that. > I trust syslog to handle asynchronous message recording far more than I trust a message queue service. You mean you trust the protocol that sends messages over UDP and can silently truncate or lose messages? Standard Unix tools are nice and I always try to use them first, but for some tasks, they are just not the right tools.