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Systems Seminar
Pig Optimization and Execution
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Abstract
This talk will cover the optimization currently done in Pig, as well as what the Pig team has discussed for next steps in the optimizer. We will also discuss Pig's current execution model and potential improvements.
Biography
Alan Gates is a co-founder of Hortonworks. He is an original member of the engineering team that took Pig from a Yahoo! Labs research project to a successful Apache open source project. Alan also designed HCatalog and guided its adoption as an Apache Incubator project. Alan has a BS in Mathematics from Oregon State University and a MA in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. He is also the author of Programming Pig, a book from O’Reilly Press.