Amen right back at ya! (I love the O'Reilly book cover.) I highly recommend people read your blog post. And there's also this classic: https://aadrake.com/comm

Amen right back at ya! (I love the O'Reilly book cover.) I highly recommend people read your blog post. And there's also this classic: https://aadrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html https://aadrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-th... I'll also take this opportunity to plug Make and Drake for manipulating data in a replicable way: https://bost.ocks.org/mike/make/ https://bost.ocks.org/mike/make/ https://github.com/Factual/drake https://github.com/Factual/drake If you're processing data using tools that cannot trace their ancestry directly to some time before 1985, you're probably wasting your own and your colleagues' time.