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IT's Next Hot Job: Hadoop Guru

Posted by samzenpus on from the specialize-or-adapt dept.

gManZboy writes "JPMorgan Chase and other companies at this year's Hadoop World conference came begging for job applicants: They say they can't find enough IT pros with certain skills, including Hadoop MapReduce. That spells high pay. As for Hadoop's staying power as a career path (a la SQL 30 years ago), IBM, Microsoft and Oracle have all embraced Hadoop this year. Maybe the best news of all: 'Intelligent technologists will pick up Hadoop very quickly.'"

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  1. Getting the Experience by geoffrobinson · · Score: 5, Informative

    The trick is going to be getting the appropriate experience without having learned it on the job already.

    Yes, it can be done. However, this technology is geared towards environments with lots of nodes in big clusters. (which can run Linux) That's not the same as simply learning a language.

    I got a job utilizing a "Big Data" database technology by being at the right place at the right time, when this technology was being rolled out. It's also hard to find people with that specialized experience.

    So I would suggest to companies, hire people and train them. Just get quality people if you can't find someone with the specific skill set.

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