Cluster By, Order By, Sort By: When to use each one in Hive
Publish Date: 2026-07-13 7 min read
Four little clauses in Hive cause more confusion — and more accidental slow queries — than almost anything else in HiveQL: ORDER BY, SORT BY, DISTRIBUTE BY, and CLUSTER BY. On the surface they all sound like they “sort your data.” In reality they do very different things,...
read moreWhat is a Data Lake ?
Publish Date: 2026-07-12 7 min read
A data lake is a central repository where you can hold and store all your data in its native format, until it’s needed for analytic applications — from dashboards and visualizations to big-data processing, real-time analytics, and machine learning — in order to guide better...
read moreUnderstanding ADFS: A Practical Architectural Demonstration
Publish Date: 2026-07-11 6 min read
If you’ve ever logged into a third-party application like Salesforce, Zoom, or Microsoft 365 using your company’s standard Windows credentials, you’ve experienced the quiet magic of Single Sign-On (SSO). For organizations rooted in Microsoft environments, the engine behind that...
read moreDeploy Minio in Openshift
Publish Date: 2024-09-30 3 min read
MinIO is a Kubernetes-native high performance object store with an S3-compatible API. The MinIO Kubernetes Operator supports deploying MinIO Tenants onto private and public cloud infrastructures (“Hybrid” Cloud). In our article today we will see how to deploy the minio operator and tenant on top of...
read moreRun Ansible playbooks Using Red Hat Satellite
Publish Date: 2024-04-24 2 min read
Red Hat Satellite is system management software that makes Red Hat infrastructure easier to deploy, scale, and manage across any environment. In our article today we will see how to run an ansible playbook in Red Hat Satellite in order to perform remote execution jobs and automate repetitive tasks....
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