As we near the final episodes of the Platform Team podcast mini-series, this latest interview features Richard Chapman, VP and Head of Research & Development, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, who leads the platform and core development teams behind HPCC Systems. Our host of the 10 year anniversary series, Flavio Villanustre, VP Technology & CISO, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, discusses with Richard how the birth of the platform over twenty years ago was in response to solving a storage problem which big mainframe equipment could not accommodate. Something more scalable was needed to manage the petabytes of data to sort more efficiently – and more importantly, faster. A small team of developers got together and created something like no other technology of its kind at the time. This was made up of a smaller cluster of computers, which we now know today as Thor and ROXIE, with an underlying declarative programming language, ECL. It wasn’t until a decade later when the decision was made to make this platform available as open source to leverage innovation and talent from the wider community.They go on to discuss how unique contributions to the platform in the form of plugins, bundles, bug reports, and more, has made a positive impact with improving the codebase and introducing innovative ideas. These were welcomed not only from the external community and interns, but also across our internal userbase from other parts of the business. It helped create an “open source” mentality within our company sparking fresh ideas and resulting in lots of tangible benefits.
Before wrapping up, Richard talks about the new features available in the latest 8.0 release to support the cloud native environment and what’s ahead on the horizon. Flavio is left in eager anticipation of 9.0, which Richard promises he will be the first to know when it’s ready.
Be sure to watch the full episode to hear more and what the community can expect in future releases!
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