This article describes how Baidu creates a secure, modular and extensible distributed file system service in project Pingo – a big data analytics solution for enterprises – based on the open-source project Alluxio.
In this article, you will learn how to incorporate Alluxio to implement a unified distributed file system service as well as how to add extensions on top of Alluxio including customized authentication schemes and UDF (user-defined functions) on Alluxio files.