Yesterday’s post where I figured out what it took to build thrift interfaces to attach to Cloudera Impala got a big improvement today. I combined my work with the hivething project that Derek Greentree wrote. It’s of course called impalathing over on github, it really does clean up the API. The big thing is that since …

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If you have a few minutes and speak python & twisted, it would be useful to have an extra set of eyes on this section of code. The basic idea of this is to be a reconnecting thrift client, such that I can just write simple client.function(a,b,c) calls without having to worry about if there is or isn’t a client and …

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