It's about how Joyent took the concept of a UNIX pipeline as a true powertool and built a distributed version atop an object filesystem with some little map/reduce syntactic sugar to replace Hadoop jobs with pipelines.
The Bryan Cantrill talk is definitely worth your time, but
you can get an understanding of Manta with their 3m screencast: https://youtu.be/d2KQ2SQLQgg
I have developed a one-liner toolset for Hadoop (when I have to use it). It's fresh to see a ZFS alternate of the concept. Don't like the JavaScript choice though.
GUN parallel should be a widely adopted choice. Lightweight. Fast. Low cost. Extendable.
It's about how Joyent took the concept of a UNIX pipeline as a true powertool and built a distributed version atop an object filesystem with some little map/reduce syntactic sugar to replace Hadoop jobs with pipelines.
The Bryan Cantrill talk is definitely worth your time, but you can get an understanding of Manta with their 3m screencast: https://youtu.be/d2KQ2SQLQgg