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> Which operating systems does you Hadoop systems run on top of? |
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We use RedHat, although we make a fair amount of custom RPMs. It's just |
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too much having to deal with Gentoo while maintaining high performance |
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filesystems and schedulers, which are apparently a real pain. |
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> Whilst research, I ran across a FAT PAYCHECK at a startup for Hadoop |
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expertise (California) : "Extremely competitive pay: 150-175K base |
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salary, large bonus plan, and a generous equity stake" |
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Lolz, a few of the full time staff regularly get headhunted for similar |
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positions. I'm still a student and would like to finish the degree, |
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though, so no high paying jobs for me yet. |
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Alec |
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