This article reminds me of a great talk by Truecar at Hadoop Summit 2015 in San Jose about how they build their Hadoop cluster. One of the takeaways from the t

This article reminds me of a great talk by Truecar at Hadoop Summit 2015 in San Jose about how they build their Hadoop cluster. One of the takeaways from the talk was that Truecar focused on training their team on basic Hadoop programming techniques, such as teaching everyone how to implement map/reduce in Java. The presenters felt this was critical to their success, which they measured both in cost of the analytic processing compared to existing solutions as well as the new analytic opportunities it opened up. Among other benefits, training allowed them to step up quickly to solving real problems rather than doing time-wasting POCs. Unfortunately the talk is not posted online that I can find but it was a great antidote to silver bullet technology fixes. Ironically the conference had a huge vendor pavilion with about 100 companies trying to sell silver bullets.