As veteran of the IT industry, I fall inline with the 10,000 hour rule in reference to Linux/Unix Systems Administration.  Needless to say, as a wrangler of *nix based operating systems, most people would consider me an expert; although, I rarely feel that way.  However, as of recent I’ve been doing a lot of work on Big Data platforms, including Hadoop, Elastic Search, MongoDB, and using tools such as Storm and Impala.  While the install of these platforms is trivial, I can unequivocally say that the tuning is not.  Continue reading →