Last month I wrote about Apache Ni-Fi, a project borne of (non-shady) work at the US National Security Agency, and now a top-level project at the Apache Software Foundation. NiFi is all about building ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) is not perhaps known for its openness and willingness to share. That’s not what it does, essentially -- and of course not why it exists. That being said, it appears ...

In a move that sets the stage for the next evolution of Hadoop, Hortonworks this week announced it will acquire Onyara, a major contributor to an open source Apache NiFi project dedicated to creating ...

That uncharacteristically overt operation raised a few eyebrows, although in fairness to the NSA it was not its first gift of technology to the open-source community. It had contributed the Accumulo ...

Hortonworks, a publicly traded company selling a commercial distribution of the Hadoop open-source big data software, announced today that it has acquired Onyara, an early-stage startup whose ...

I'm trying to determine if this flow-based programming paradigm is good for us. We're going to, soon, be inundated with multiple different "streams" of inbound data in multiple formats and there are ...