Hortonworks Data Platform is a managed Hadoop architecture for enterprises.

Venkatesh Seetharam is a software engineer at Hortonworks. He has worked on several Apache projects, including Hadoop, Falcon, and Atlas.

Questions include:

• Will Hadoop ever be so big we will have to start over from scratch?
• What is the YARN data operating system?
• How are customers of Hortonworks dealing with numerous managed Big Data providers?
• How do customers use Apache Spark?
• What is Apache Falcon?
• Is Distributed Systems an art or a science?

Links:

• What distribution should I choose: Cloudera, Hortonworks or MapR?
• Apache Falcon
• Apache Knox Gateway
• Apache Atlas