a16z paved the path for a large chunk of the industry even if engineers don't like to admit it.
Even something like this would have been impossible to realise unless you had an engineering background and were hands-on:
> Ben didn’t think Hadoop was going to be the winning architecture. It was notoriously difficult to program and manage, and Ben thought it was poorly suited for the future: every step in a MapReduce computation wrote intermediate results to disk, which made it painfully slow for iterative workloads like machine learning.
Long read but worth it.
a16z paved the path for a large chunk of the industry even if engineers don't like to admit it.
Even something like this would have been impossible to realise unless you had an engineering background and were hands-on:
> Ben didn’t think Hadoop was going to be the winning architecture. It was notoriously difficult to program and manage, and Ben thought it was poorly suited for the future: every step in a MapReduce computation wrote intermediate results to disk, which made it painfully slow for iterative workloads like machine learning.