IT's Next Hot Job: Hadoop Guru

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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general IT market fairly hot

[peter303]

If I attend some public talk on a trendy subject its swarming with recruiters. Topics include no-sql, html5, mobile, etc. There seem to be at least ten job openings for everyone looking for something.

Re:Right.

[ackthpt]

Java is one of the most inefficient languages ever? I take it you've never programmed in ruby, python, perl, etc. IIRC, Java benchmarks have shown it outpacing everything except for C/C++, FORTRAN and OCaml.

On first execution (and compile) it's slow. On first creation of an instance it is slow. After that Java makes up for itself rather nicely. If well implemented it's a great way to go, though I wouldn't chose it for my 3D rendering or reconciling a fiscal year's worth of journal entries, it's not that kind of language.