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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: cascading</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/cascading.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2008-10-01T13:22:19+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Cascading</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Oct/1/about/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-10-01T13:22:19+00:00</published><updated>2008-10-01T13:22:19+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Oct/1/about/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cascading.org/about.html"&gt;Cascading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
A Java API abstraction layer over Hadoop that lets developers think in terms of pipes and filters rather than map/reduce. The Cascading developers claim that this model is easier to understand and less error prone.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cascading"&gt;cascading&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/hadoop"&gt;hadoop&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/java"&gt;java&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mapreduce"&gt;mapreduce&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pipesfilters"&gt;pipesfilters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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