Finding God in a Dog

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Scala: This language allows many programmers to write the same code faster than they would in Java. And if they ignore readability and maintainability, they can go even faster.

Hadoop: A slow-as-molasses query engine might not look impressive, but multiply them by a hundred and look out. By the way, we forgot to mention that you can buy a Hadoop setup on the cloud. Insert Beowulf cluster joke here.

Chef: We do configuration management. In Ruby. But we’re not Puppet. Honest.

Apache Drill: If you need to query Oracle, DB2, Hadoop, SQL Server, JSON, XML, and a bunch of Mickey Mouse MS Access databases sitting in Accounting, simultaneously, this will do it. Note future tense. By the way, we could really use developers.

Coreboot: If you had just come to our tutorial, you would have gotten maximum geek points and a new Chromebook.