It is still chilly, and often windy and rainy too. The days are getting longer, however, and March 21 officially marks the start of spring. During the last weekend of the month, the clocks go forward, giving more daylight for sightseeing. There begin to be more tourists, particularly if Easter falls early.
Agile personnel provide day-to-day support of the system and consult on future uses of the system both locally and nationally. State Heritage Office (SHO) engaged Agile Computing to replace their aging business system with a modern supportable application.
Hadoop is a framework that helps processing large data sets across multiple computers. It includes Map/Reduce (parallel processing) and HDFS (distributed file system). Hive is a data warehouse built on top of HDFS and Map/Reduce. It provides a SQL-like query engine that converts queries into Map/Reduce jobs and run them on the cluster.