Tag: Hadoop

Cloudera Administration Handbook – How to become an effective Big Data administrator of large Hadoop clusters – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

    Cloudera Administration Handbook  Rohit Menon Packt Publishing – Kindle, paperback   The explosive growth and use of Big Data in business, government, science and other arenas has fueled a strong demand for new Hadoop administrators. The administrators’ key duty is to set up and maintain Hadoop clusters that help process and analyze massive amounts of … Continue reading Cloudera Administration Handbook – How to become an effective Big Data administrator of large Hadoop clusters – #bookreview

Programming MapReduce with Scalding – Using Hadoop & Scala to do some Big Data – #programming #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Programming MapReduce with Scalding A practical guide to designing, testing, and implementing complex MapReduce applications in Scala Antonios Chalkiopoulos (Packt Publishing – paperback, Kindle)   Antonio Chalkiopoulos’s new book has three key goals, and it meets each of them in good, readable fashion. It describes how MapReduce, Hadoop, and Scalding can work together. It suggests … Continue reading Programming MapReduce with Scalding – Using Hadoop & Scala to do some Big Data – #programming #bookreview

Hadoop is hot! Three new how-to books for riding the Big Data elephant – #programming #bookreview

by Si Dunn

In the world of Big Data, Hadoop has become the hard-charging elephant in the room. Its big-name users now span the alphabet and include such notables as Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Google, the New York Times, and Yahoo. Not bad for software named after a child’s toy elephant. Computer systems that run Hadoop can store, process, … Continue reading Hadoop is hot! Three new how-to books for riding the Big Data elephant – #programming #bookreview

MapReduce Design Patterns – For solving Big Data problems – #bookreview #programming #hadoop

by Si Dunn

MapReduce Design Patterns Donald Miner and Adam Shook (O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle) “MapReduce is a computing paradigm for processing data that resides on hundreds of computers,” the authors point out. It has been “popularized recently by Google, Hadoop, and many others.” The MapReduce paradigm is “extraordinarily powerful, but does not provide a general solution to what many … Continue reading MapReduce Design Patterns – For solving Big Data problems – #bookreview #programming #hadoop

Spring Data: Modern Data Access for Enterprise Java – #java #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Spring Data: Modern Data Access for Enterprise Java Mark Pollack, Oliver Gierke, Thomas Risberg, Jonathan L. Brisbin and Michael Hunger (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) Big Data keeps getting wider and deeper by the second. And so do the demands for analyzing and profiting from all of those piled-up terabytes. Meanwhile, the once whiz-bang technology known … Continue reading Spring Data: Modern Data Access for Enterprise Java – #java #bookreview

Big Data Book Blast: Hadoop, Hive…and Python??? – #programming #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Big Data is hothotHOT. And O’Reilly recently has added three new books of potential interest to Big Data workers, as well as those hoping to join their ranks. Hadoop, Hive and–surprise!—Python are just a few of the hot tools you may encounter in the rapidly expanding sea of data now being gathered, explored, stored, and … Continue reading Big Data Book Blast: Hadoop, Hive…and Python??? – #programming #bookreview

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, Third Edition – Big Tools for Big Data – #programming #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, Third Edition Tom White (O’Reilly, paperback, list price $49.99; Kindle edition, list price, $39.99) “The good news is that Big Data is here,” Tom White writes in this revised and updated third edition to Hadoop’s “definitive guide.” But: “The bad news is that we are struggling to store and analyze it.” … Continue reading Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, Third Edition – Big Tools for Big Data – #programming #bookreview