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HadoopSphere is an initiative by Sachin Ghai to provide a community driven platform for exchanging free and frank thoughts on big data technologies. Sachin is a key innovator and futuristic who works on building massive scalability systems with current interests in intersection of cloud, big data and artificial intelligence. To get in touch with Sachin, send an e-mail to scale@hadoopsphere.com or send a message on Twitter.
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