David McGinnis
Testing a Hive Patch on a Local System
[...] I needed to get a Hive cluster running my code and a Confluent cluster that could output Avro messages in the proper format to test.
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David McGinnis
- Mar 10, 2020
- 4 min
A Crash Course in Proper Oozie Usage
[...] focus on best practices such as when and why you should use Oozie, and when to use bundles.
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David McGinnis
- Feb 25, 2020
- 7 min
Debugging From The Field: The Case of the Empty Files
A team at a client was using Spark to read and write to a Kafka topic. [...] files that would be written that were completely empty.
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David McGinnis
- Dec 3, 2019
- 5 min
Debugging From The Field: The Case of the Ignored Configuration Change
We made the change on a Sunday, but four days later, the number of files had not appreciably changed in the YARN logs directory.
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David McGinnis
- Nov 26, 2019
- 4 min
A Crash Course in YARN Log Aggregation
The system which maintains the application logs in HDFS is called the Log Aggregation system and is flexible [...]
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David McGinnis
- Nov 12, 2019
- 4 min
Debugging from the Field: Smartsense Activity Explorer Stops Working
This client didn't use the activity explorer much [...] I tried to run one of the paragraphs and immediately [failed].
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David McGinnis
- Oct 22, 2019
- 4 min
Running Garbage Collection on Your Cluster
At a high level, [CGC] is merely going through the cluster, taking inventory of the data and processes that run on the cluster...
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David McGinnis
- Oct 6, 2019
- 5 min
YARN Capacity Scheduler and Node Labels Part 3
We will discuss how partitions play with YARN queues. Finally, we will return to the example given in the first part of this series.
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David McGinnis
- Sep 29, 2019
- 4 min
YARN Capacity Scheduler and Node Labels Part 2
How do we ensure that GPU jobs run on worker nodes with GPUs without buying expensive GPUs for all of our worker nodes?
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David McGinnis
- Sep 22, 2019
- 5 min
YARN Capacity Scheduler and Node Labels Part 1
I'm going to explore exactly how YARN works with queues, and the various mechanisms available to control how YARN does this.
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David McGinnis
- Sep 8, 2019
- 4 min
Debugging From the Field: Sudden Kerberos Failure in HiveServer2 Instance
A client has a medium sized kerberized HDP 2.6.0 installation. Hive Interactive is disabled and Hive is set up to use HTTP transport mode.
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