Hortonworks announced today that it has updated its Hortonworks DataFlow (HDF) platform with new features and updated Apache projects. HDF 2.0 includes a drastically redesigned Apache NiFi project, better handling of cluster-wide security policies, and a more portable version of its dataflow management layer. Apache NiFi is at the top of the list of changes. … continue reading
Apache Storm hit a milestone release today. The Apache Software Foundation announced version 1.0 of the open-source distributed real-time computation framework for processing large streams of data with a new native streaming windows API. “Window-based computations are common among use cases in stream processing, where the unbounded stream of data is split into finite sets … continue reading
Lookout, a mobile security company, has detected more than 20,000 samples of a trojanized adware pretending to be top apps like Candy Crush, Facebook, Google Now, NYTimes, Okta, Twitter, WhatsApp and more, according to its blog. Auto-rooting adware is a malware that roots the device automatically after the user installs it, embedding itself as a … continue reading
Since it was created in 2011, Storm has garnered a lot of attention from the Big Data and stream-processing worlds. In September 2014, the project finally reached top-level status at the Apache Foundation, making 2015 the first full year in which Storm will be considered “enterprise ready.” But that doesn’t mean there’s not still plenty … continue reading
