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title: "Opinionated Infrastructure: Growing Up and Getting Younger. Happy Birthday Hadoop and PureSystems"
date: 2013-04-12T13:57:14Z
modified: 2013-04-12T13:57:14Z
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The tech birthdays are coming thick and fast right now. Take WordPress, which is 10 years old today, or Hadoop, which just turned 7. I have been thinking about how the industry is changing right now, in multiple dimensions, and how we have to manage a bunch of unruly kids called analytics, cloud, mobile, social and Big Data. Opinionated parenting can stop you from going nuts- the kids need to know what time is bedtime.

So in the video above I say Happy Birthday to the sponsor of Opinionated Infrastructure – IBM PureSystems and explain why discipline is an important part of the mix. The video is meta, and fun, and I think you’ll enjoy it. Here’s to all our children, growing up yet somehow getting younger all the time.