Candidates often ask us for educational resources to help them break into the world of “Big Data”. For people new to the field, I recommend starting off with podcasts that explore solutions to the problems frequently encountered by engineers who deal with large-scale data. Here are some of my favorites: The History of Hadoop Hadoop: Past, Present and Future with Mike Cafarella Kafka, Storm, and Cassandra: Keen IO’s Analytics Architecture with Dan Kador