Building and Running a Recommendation Engine at Any Scale bit.ly/1xm4eVr

Happening in 1hr: Partner webinar w/ Amazon Web Services "Building, Deploying, and Operating a Custom Recommendation Engine" bit.ly/16tw7zR

HBase at Bloomberg, Hive-on-Spark, and (ahem) a Mortar+AWS recommender. It's Joe Crobak's Hadoop Weekly (issue #100!) bit.ly/1zVO1Gm

Security with Sentry/Ranger, Spark Packages, what's in store for Apache Drill, and more in Joe Crobak's Hadoop Weekly bit.ly/1Ae44PN

Kite SDK, SQL-on-Hadoop engines, security in Sqoop2, and more, all in Joe Crobak's Hadoop Weekly bit.ly/1tK0nRA

Just announced: NYC Data Science meetup on Jan. 22, with Daeil Kim of the NYT bit.ly/1BQ7MOc

Learn about Luigi from one of its creators, Erik Bernhardsson (fulhack) of Spotify bit.ly/1wyCFTQ [Meetup video/slides/transcript]

Python for data science, Storm + Kafka at Spotify, Mesos/YARN compare & contrast, all in Joe Crobak's Hadoop Weekly bit.ly/1KCk7M7

Congrats to our friends at DataKind, who are expanding with a new investment from the Knight Foundation kng.ht/1y1Qqyx

Improving Spark's shuffle, using non-JVM languages with Hadoop, data protection, and more, in the new Hadoop Weekly bit.ly/15mrBD1

Announcing Spark on Mortar bit.ly/15uvsNA

Flink overview, using Kafka to ship large messages, decision trees in MLlib, and more, in Joe Crobak's Hadoop Weekly blog.mortardata.com/post/109210388…

Great talk by jco on the strengths and weaknesses of Pig, plus Pig v. Scalding [Video, Slides, Transcript] blog.mortardata.com/post/109495522…

Spark adoption, data science with Scalding + R, and our own blank on data pipelines, in Joe Crobak's Hadoop Weekly blog.mortardata.com/post/109886147…

Machine Learning at the New York Times: Video/slides from Daeil Kim's NYC Data Science meetup talk blog.mortardata.com/post/109883405…

Parquet overview, loading JSON into Spark SQL, and new versions of Hive and Kafka, all in Joe Crobak's Hadoop Weekly blog.mortardata.com/post/110553630…

Mortar Data is now a part of Datadog! Please join us in welcoming team Mortar dtdg.co/1DEtO9S

Big news from us: Mortar is joining Datadog blog.mortardata.com/post/110697554…

We just open-sourced Mortar's tools for working with JSON in Apache Pig: github.com/mortardata/pig…