Book of the Week: Enterprise Data Workflows with Cascading

05 Sep 2013

Waterworks Card Game Enterprise Data Workflows with Cascading describes how to build big data applications with a focus on how data moves without worrying about details. The concept behind cascading reminded of the old Waterworks card game. You connect pipes together with a finite set of pieces to create a complex network bringing resources from one place to another place where it can be better used. The directed graph diagrams can be created with dot from graphivz. $ dot -Tsvg graph.dot -o graph.svg