Hadooponomics

For the fifth episode of Hadooponomics I brought Alex Williams and Benjamin Ball from The New Stack onto the show. The New Stack is a research and news outlet that specializes in following how a new breed of technologies is forever changing the enterprise and startup technology landscape. This angle gave us the ability to morph our discussion into more of a roundtable chat where we touched on everything from the parallels between containerization and Big Data, to the economic incentives in technology development. In this episode, Benjamin gives a particularly insightful bit about the ebb and flow of ‘skills gaps’ associated with any emerging technology. He offers an explanation of the pros and cons of the role that the media (i.e. we) play in over hyping/bringing attention to such issues and what that means for the world of Big Data. The last third of our episode focuses on a discussion around open source foundations and why people should perhaps be more cynical (or at least aware) of their underl