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FAQ: Understanding the Parcel Binary Distribution Format
May 22, 2013
Have you ever wished you could upgrade to the latest CDH minor release with just a few mouse clicks, and even without taking any downtime on your cluster? Well, with Cloudera Manager 4.5 and its new “Parcel” feature, you can!

Webinar Replay: Cloudera Development Kit (CDK) - Hadoop Application Development Made Easier
May 22, 2013
The CDK is both a framework and long-term initiative for documenting proven Hadoop development practices and providing helpful doc and APIs that will make Hadoop application development as easy as possible.

Meet the Project Founder: Roman Shaposhnik
May 17, 2013
This installment of “Meet the Project Founder” features Apache Bigtop founder and PMC Chair/VP Roman Shaposhnik.

How-to: Configure Eclipse for Hadoop Contributions
May 15, 2013
Contributing to Apache Hadoop or writing custom pluggable modules requires modifying Hadoop’s source code. This how-to covers configuring Eclipse to do that.

Fresh and Hot: HBaseCon 2013 Schedule Finalized!
May 14, 2013
If you lacked motivation to register up until this point, we think that this session line-up will convince you otherwise. HBaseCon is simply an event that you can’t afford to miss.

Migrating Our Hadoop Cluster from CDH3 to CDH4 (via Oliver Meyn)
May 14, 2013
We've written a number of times on the initial setup, eventual upgrade, and continued tuning of our Hadoop cluster. Our latest project has been upgrading from CDH3u3 to CDH4.2.1.

How-to: Automate Your Hadoop Cluster from Java
May 13, 2013
One of the complexities of Apache Hadoop is the need to deploy clusters of servers, potentially on a regular basis. Learn an approach to cluster automation, based on the Cloudera Manager API, that works for Cloudera.

Metrics2: The New Hotness for Apache HBase Metrics
May 8, 2013
An overview of the new Metrics system for HBase, Metrics2.

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