Lucas Bakalian is a full stack Big Data architect with more than 5 years of experience. He has deployed and operated multi-tenant clusters for large French companies with several hundreds nodes.
His personal passion for IT has allowed him to gain early experience in client-side and server-side web technologies and mobile environments. The diversity of the technologies with which he has worked allows him to set up and support clients when defining the requirements, designing the architecture, going to production, operating the systems and creating value in the data.
Finally, Lucas is also teaching Big Data trainings to share and transfer his acquired skills.
Published articles
Clusters and workloads migration from Hadoop 2 to Hadoop 3
Categories: Big Data, Infrastructure | Tags: HDFS, Slider, YARN, Erasure Coding, Rolling Upgrade, Spark, Docker
Hadoop 2 to Hadoop 3 migration is a hot subject. How to upgrade your clusters, which features present in the new release may solve current problems and bring new opportunities, how are your current…
Jul 25, 2018
Curing the Kafka blindness with the UI manager
Categories: Big Data | Tags: Ambari, Ranger, Hortonworks, HDP, HDF, JMX, UI, Kafka
Today it’s really difficult for developers, operators and managers to visualize and monitor what happens in a Kafka cluster. This articles covers a new graphical interface to oversee Kafka. It was…
Jun 20, 2018
Apache Hadoop YARN 3.0 – State of the union
Categories: Big Data, DataWorks Summit 2018 | Tags: HDFS, MapReduce, YARN, Cloudera, GPU, Hortonworks, Hadoop, Data Science, Docker, Release and features
This article covers the ”Apache Hadoop YARN: state of the union” talk held by Wangda Tan from Hortonworks during the Dataworks Summit 2018. What is Apache YARN? As a reminder, YARN is one of the two…
May 31, 2018
Lightweight containerization with Tupperware
Categories: Containers Orchestration, Open Source Summit Europe 2017, Infrastructure | Tags: Zookeeper, Btrfs, LXD, Red Hat, Systemd, Cloud, Consensus
In this article, I will present lightweight containerization set up by Facebook called Tupperware. What is Tupperware Tupperware is a homemade framework written and used internally at Facebook…
Nov 3, 2017