Instant MapReduce Patterns - Hadoop Essentials How-to

by Srinath Perera

Overview

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. This is a Packt Instant How-to guide, which provides concise and clear recipes for getting started with Hadoop.This book is for big data enthusiasts and would-be Hadoop programmers. It is also meant for Java programmers who either have not worked with Hadoop at all, or who know Hadoop and MapReduce but are not sure how to deepen their understanding.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782167716
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	05/22/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	60
File size:	740 KB

About the Author

Srinath Perera is a Senior Software Architect at WSO2 Inc., where he overlooks the overall WSO2 platform architecture with the CTO. He also serves as a Research Scientist at Lanka Software Foundation and teaches as a visiting faculty at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa. He is a co-founder of Apache Axis2 open source project, and he has been involved with the Apache Web Service project since 2002, and is a member of Apache Software foundation and Apache Web Service project PMC. Srinath is also a committer of Apache open source projects Axis, Axis2, and Geronimo. He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Sciences from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA and received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Srinath has authored many technical and peer reviewed research articles, and more detail can be found from his website. He is also a frequent speaker at technical venues. He has worked with large-scale distributed systems for a long time. He closely works with Big Data technologies, such as Hadoop and Cassandra daily. He also teaches a parallel programming graduate class at University of Moratuwa, which is primarily based on Hadoop.