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In Part 1 of this series we installed Hadoop 3.3.6 natively on Ubuntu 24.04 and got HDFS running in pseudo-distributed mode. That gave us a working distributed file system, but Hadoop is much more than storage — its true power lies in processing large datasets in parallel using the MapReduce programming model. In this...

When I started working with Hadoop in a learning environment, the course guide indicated using Linux Mint in a virtual machine. However, I already had Ubuntu 24.04 installed natively on my Dell Vostro with 32 GB of RAM, and it seemed smarter to leverage it directly. In this post I...

PersonaPlex: Mastering Conversational English with NVIDIA and RunPod Improving conversational English requires real-time interaction, but finding a native speaker available 24/7 can be a challenge. In this post, I will show you how I deployed NVIDIA’s latest PersonaPlex-7B-v1 model on RunPod to create a private, high-performance English tutor. What is...

Context: Why Model and Platform Matter As a data scientist and developer, I rely on advanced LLMs (Large Language Models) like Claude Opus, Sonnet, GPT-4.1, and GPT-4o for both architectural planning and daily coding. But I quickly learned that the same model behaves differently depending on the platform—and that maximizing value...