Today’s blog discusses what it means to be an operations manager in a Hadoop environment and covers the Pepperdata Platform Spotlight, our operations-focused solution. There are big obstacles to big data access, not the least of which is the fact that you’re dealing with a complex multi-tenant distributed system. When... read more →
As you know by now, Cloudera and Hortonworks have announced their plans to merge. The companies reportedly have a combined fully-diluted equity value of $5.2 billion and expect to generate approximately $720 million in revenue. As after any notable merger, articles and commentaries surface, asking things like whether this represents... read more →
As a capacity manager, you’re responsible for managing costs and growth as well as driving business by helping developers succeed with their applications. Both the applications and the platform must to be high-performing, and developers must understand the aspects of the platform that affect their applications. It's one thing to... read more →
When you start to consider Application Performance Management (APM) solutions, you have specific pain points or challenges that you need to overcome. Don’t forget about those initial challenges as you go through the steps of assessing solutions. Developers want their apps to work faster, but why? Capacity managers want to... read more →
Developers are faced with specific challenges to big data success, including poor performance, unpredictable runtimes, and bottlenecks. They need faster, more efficient applications to meet SLAs, but at times, they submit a query and have no insight into when it starts running — or whether it will finish successfully. Developers... read more →
The Strata Data Conference is always well worth the trip, whether it’s within driving distance or clear across the country. This year’s Strata Data NYC was no exception, and we enjoyed the lively conversations and excitement of the attendees. This show’s topics ran the gamut, from Spark to Kubernetes, from... read more →
Pepperdata makes Hadoop+YARN based systems better by providing total performance management (TPM) for big data. TPM is the combination of application performance management (APM) and operations performance management (OPM) in a single package so developers and operators can rely on the same underlying information to build and operate highly performant... read more →
Total Performance Management has two components: Application performance management (APM) Operations performance management (OPM) The reason why those two components application and platform need to be thought about together is because your application is a distributed application it relies on what your platform is able to do as well. Those... read more →
This blog is the first in a series that introduces big data developers to Pepperdata Application Summary. Application Summary is the first in a series of Pepperdata guided application performance management (APM) user experiences. In these experiences, we solve a particular user problem (or use case) by providing all the relevant... read more →
From our introduction of developer tools that provide Hadoop and Spark developers with easy-to-understand recommendations for improving job performance to working closely with our growing customer base of Big Data heavy hitters, 2017 was a good year for Pepperdata. We saw that Big Data is changing, with less emphasis on... read more →