
This next episode features our host, Flavio Villanustre, VP Technology & CISO, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, interviewing two esteemed technologists from our core HPCC Systems platform team, Rodrigo Pastrana, Architect, and James McMullan, Sr Software Engineer. Rodrigo joined the team right around the time the platform went open source, so he shares his insight on how the platform has evolved over the years by exposing our technology to the community. James started midway through our open source journey with one of his first projects tackling the integration of Spark with HPCC Systems. Both Rodrigo and James have developed many connectors and plugins to help build the bridge for working with datasets that utilized other open source projects. They explain this has not only helped expand our ecosystem, but also opened the door to new opportunities for creating additional interfaces to accommodate any data size or format. In order to support and grow our open source community, they continue to develop these modules that extend the capabilities of HPCC Systems, which are free to the community for integrating third party tools with the platform. They close with giving an update on some of the new work they are doing to help users better manage their data in the cloud, including improved logging, easy to read visualizations, and enhanced data movement across various formats. Yet another example of the benefits of open source, allowing the developer community to contribute different technology and come together to build something great!