Flume Initial Development at Cloudera

Hari Shreedharan and a team at Cloudera begin developing Flume to address the critical need for reliable, distributed log data ingestion into Hadoop clusters.

Significance

This marks the genesis of the technology, driven by practical, real-world problems faced by early adopters of Hadoop.

Key facts

Year
2009
Type
invention
Location
Palo Alto, California, USA (Cloudera offices)