Cascading 4.0.0 Released

[Chris K Wensel]

Hey all

Just a quick note to announce that Cascading 4.0.0 has been released to Maven Central.

https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:net.wensel

This release is an accumulation of changes since 2017.

The most prominent changes are:

* Local mode support improved for production use
* Moved the website to https://cascading.wensel.net/
* Changed the Maven group name to `net.wensel` (from `cascading`)
* Moved to GitHub Packages (WIPs) and Maven Central (releases) 
* Added native JSON support via the `cascading-nested-json` sub-project
* Removed `cascading-xml` sub-project
* Removed Apache Hadoop 1.x support

For a detailed list, see: https://github.com/cwensel/cascading/blob/4.0/CHANGES.txt

Most of which have been driven by using Cascading, not on Apache Hadoop, but as a single process, single threaded data processing, `cascading-local`, application.

With intentional design leveraging cloud native orchestration frameworks, domain specific data partitioning, and obvious opportunities for parallelization, very manageable and efficient data engineering workloads can be deployed. 

This approach allows us to think of data pipelines as event driven, loosely coupled, functional components, vs typical processing monoliths that simply erode trust over time.

enjoy,

chris

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Chris K Wensel

ch...@wensel.net