Hadoop in Practice

Hadoop is an open source MapReduce platform designed to query and analyze data distributed across large clusters. Especially eff ective for big data systems, Hadoop powers mission-critical soft ware at Apple, eBay, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Facebook. It off ers developers handy ways to store, manage, andanalyze data.
Hadoop in Practice collects 85 battle-tested examples and presents them in a problem/solution format. It balances conceptual foundations with practical recipes for key problem areas likedata ingress and egress, serialization, and LZO compression. Youll explore each technique step by step, learning how to build a specifi c solution along with the thinking that went into it. As a bonus, the books examples create a wellstructured and understandable codebase you can tweak to meet your own needs.

Inside the Book

Conceptual overview of Hadoop and MapReduce u 85 practical, tested techniques u Real problems, real solutions u How to integrate MapReduce and R u

ISBN: 9789351191506 Pages: 534 | Price: ` 699/Author: Alex Holmes

Table of Contents
PART 1 BACKGROUND AND FUNDAMENTALS
Hadoop in a heartbeat

PART 4 DATA SCIENCE

Utilizing data structures and algorithms Integrating R and Hadoop for statistics and

PART 2 DATA LOGISTICS Moving data in and out of Hadoop Data serializationworking with text and beyond PART 3 BIG DATA PATTERNS Applying MapReduce patterns to big data Streamlining HDFS for big data Diagnosing and tuning performance problems

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Predictive analytics with Mahout

PART 5 TAMING THE ELEPHANT

Hacking with Hive Programming pipelines with Pig Crunch and other technologies Testing and debugging

About the Author

Alex Holmes is a senior soft ware engineer with extensive expertise in solving big data problems using Hadoop. He has presented at JavaOne and Jazoon and is a technical lead at VeriSign.
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