Technologies Used In Developing Applications Using Apache Accumulo I was recently talking about how people train themselves for Big Data projects. The technology stack is fairly daunting. Below are the technologies that I find helpful. Ill add the list as I remember more: Systems Administration Technologies System administrators are absolutely essential to successful projects. They ensure that software is installed and configured correctly. More importantly, they ensure repeatable builds and deployments. Oh, and they really need to understand the widely varying failure modes. Read the excellently written Aphyr blog to learn about some of them. OpenStack - The technology consists of a series of interrelated projects that control pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering its users to provision resources through a web interface. Puppet - Puppet Open S...