Using Open Source for Data

As we like to say at FOSS Force, open source is taking over the world. It’s everywhere you look.

The Video Screening Room

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Bryan Liles, from DigitalOcean, explains about many useful open source big data tools in this eight minute video. I learned about Apache Mesos, Apache Presto, Google Kubernetes and more.

This video reminded me about the quality of tweets in Bryan’s twitter stream. He is worth following for his insights, observations, wisdom and quips.

Phil Shapiro

For the past 10 years, Phil has been working at a public library in the Washington D.C.-area, helping youth and adults use the 28 public Linux stations the library offers seven days a week. He also writes for MAKE magazine, Opensource.com and TechSoup Libraries. Suggest videos by contacting Phil on Twitter or at pshapiro@his.com.