Amen, rest in peace, buddy!
On 11/3/19 1:29 AM, Jay Vyas wrote:
Hi bigtop. This is a somewhat sad email to send, but Brad was a great guy and
a lot of fun, and I’m sure he’s smiling down on us now.
About 6 Years ago I begin working at red hat on gluster and Hadoop integration
with the bigdata team, and along with Brad Childs, focused on making GlusterFS
a first class citizen in the Hadoop ecosystem.
One of the unsung hero’s of BigTop was Brad: he maintained the core
functionality of gluster Hadoop such that I could focus on the Hadoop ecosystem
interop, and as he added functionality to the GlusterFS connector, I was able
to work more and more on the smoke test and automation frameworks over time.
Thus in many ways I owe a lot of the friends and progress we’ve made in BigTop
to Brad.
Brad also helped me to test initial versions of the BigTop vagrant recipes and
we went on to use them for development testing at red hat for some time, and he
supported our contributions to BigTop politically at red hat as well (I’m sure
you all know it’s important to get corporate sponsors for open source work). So
he really was a great enabler for this project.
Brad was also the lead on the storage commitee at kubernetes, working with
humain Chen and others to make scalable storage an option on kubernetes.
I wanted to just take a moment to let you all know that he passed away this
last weekend, as we were all shocked to here.
I hope you all can take a brief moment to appreciate His lasting impact on the
BigTop project, Hadoop interoperability, and on the ASF.
There are many great engineers in the supporting cast for the open source work
we do here and if you know anyone who has helped you or enabled you to grow
your career here at the ASF, now is a great time to let them know.
Thanks brad, rest well buddy.
Btw: A funny quote from Brad to end this email: when we were at Hadoop world in
2015, after the bigdata boom “I thought this would be a big party... but it
feels more like a wake”.
