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Re:Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster by threeseed on Sunday January 18, 2015 @05:41PM (#8909271)
Another explanation is that your CIO is not an idiot but rather they know about future projects that you don't. CIOs want to build capabilities (skills and technologies) not just one off implementations every time.

Not saying this is the case but CIO bashing is all too easy when you're an engineer.

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Re:Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster by acdha on Sunday January 18, 2015 @07:41PM (#8909678)
A good CIO would know that leaving out key parts of the project is unlikely to produce good results. Even if the details aren't final, a simple “… and we probably need to scale this up considerably by next year” would be useful when weighing tradeoffs
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Re:Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster by eru on Sunday January 18, 2015 @11:09PM (#8910266)
The CIO is probably better at playing corporate politics than a grunt. (That's why they are CIO and not a grunt.)
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Re:Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster by JustSomeNobody on Monday January 19, 2015 @09:12AM (#8911956)
The last people you want to keep secrets from are your engineers.
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Re:Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster by EpicEng on Monday January 19, 2015 @12:56PM (#8913010)
I think that hiding requirements from the people building the system would, in fact, be an idiotic move.
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