Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Cluster (2014)

Re:Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Clust... by beokop on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @05:07PM (#17138297)

So much internal tooling at a company can be avoided if you can just get people comfortable with basic *nix programs. No, we don’t need a web interface to show that data. No, we don’t need to code a dropdown to sort it differently.

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Re:Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Clust... by digi_owl on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @06:51PM (#17139182)

And yet the UX people, particularly around Linux, wants to bury the _nix cli so damned deep...

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Re:Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Clust... by tormeh on Thursday May 24, 2018 @05:51AM (#17142505)

CLIs have a discoverability problem. Knowing how to use any given one is a skill that takes years to hone. Learning a single command can take up to an hour. Most webapps are more constrained, but a common operation can usually be accomplished by someone who hasn't seen it before in less than 3 minutes.

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Re:Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Clust... by jonhendry18 on Sunday May 27, 2018 @02:54AM (#17165833)

The 'apropos' command is very handy on machine or OS you aren't familiar with.

If you want to find out what tools are available on the CLI that operate on jpegs, you'd try 'apropos jpeg' and get a list of things that mention jpeg in their man page.

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Re:Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Clust... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @08:50PM (#17139953)

Can't say I blame them. The base concept is sound but the implementation is archaic and obtuse as hell.

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