Hydra excels at taking massive amounts of data and making it interpretable. It’s flexibility and scalability are really put on display when you have a lot of data, like Map-Reduce in Hadoop. Now that I have a local stack running, I need to feed Hydra in order to play with it, much like the Tamagotchi’s […]
Dependencies Maven Java 7 SDK RabbitMQ (Instructions provided below) Building 1. Checkout from Github 2. RabbitMQ As described in the Hydra Readme.mdown, Hydra uses rabbitmq for low volume commands and control message exchanges. On a modern Linux systems apt-get install rabbitmq-server and running with the default settings is adequate in most cases. For Mac OS (my environment), I used Homebrew to install it. Super easy […]
Continuing in Hydra land, one of the pinnacle objects is the Job. These jobs represent the construction of information from a source. Think of it as the worker, milling away to create the DataTree. IJob The IJob interface lays the foundation. It has many properties defining the characteristics of a job, such as start time, […]
AddThis recently released Hydra on the open source community, and with my proximity to this technology, I thought it would be a wonderful winter adventure to peruse the code base. After cloning the project from GitHub, I required updating/adding Java 7 to my Eclipse environment. It was a bit more tedious than I expected. I […]
