Tom-e-white.com Website Review

> Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. —Piet > Hein After nine and a half years, today is my last day at Cloudera. It’s difficult to write those words as so much of my life has been bound up with this company. On the day I started, I didn’t meet my co-workers as I was living several thousand miles away in a barn in Wales. (The others were in a borrowed meeting room in San Mateo.) As I leave I am still in a barn in Wales (different barn though), but a lot has On the personal side, my family and I lived in San Francisco during the early formative years of Cloudera, a time we will always treasure On the professional side, it is no exaggeration to say that working at Cloudera has been the highlight of my career. I already knew that Hadoop was pretty special when I joined (I may have been biased as I was writing a book on it), but I had no idea how it would transform the industry and how it would be used in every sector you could imagine. To all of you I have worked with over the last decade—at Apache, Cloudera and elsewhere, on many projects—I consider myself to be incredibly fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with you. Thank you. Jim Waldo, who worked on distributed systems at Sun, once said that he alternated six month periods between the lab and the outside world: in the lab he and his team built systems software, and in the outside world he saw how people used the system he was building. Doing so gave him valuable feedback on the system design, even though it was time away from being able to build the system. ground—building a new system—and exploiting that system to solve particular problems you are interested in, which is why you built the system in the first place. (Of course, this framing is oversimplified, since there are many people working on both parts simultaneously. It’s a useful way of thinking about things as an individual actor though.) For the past few years I have been working on a few open source biology and healthcare projects (like GATK