[gaius]

It's worse than that. People will run Hadoop on 20 nodes to do stuff Excel could handle easily, so they can join the "big data" fun. It's just CV-padding really, ironic given the discussion.

[001sky]

https://twitter.com/Lumonade/status/289171814444331008

"@DEVOPS_BORAT got heavy duty @dev ops gig available in San Mateo,ca and Seattle area! $130-$140+k doe email me [e-mail]"

does this mean it works?

[rmc]

Unfortunately, employers will treat that as big data experience, and hire that way. Employees are merely reacting to what the market tells them.