{"product_id":"9781430219439","title":"Pro Hadoop","description":"\u003cp\u003eYou’ve heard the hype about Hadoop: it runs petabyte–scale data mining tasks insanely fast, it runs gigantic tasks on clouds for absurdly cheap, it’s been heavily committed to by tech giants like IBM, Yahoo!, and the Apache Project, and it’s completely open-source (thus \u003cem\u003efree\u003c\/em\u003e). But what exactly is it, and more importantly, how do you even get a Hadoop cluster up and running?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFrom Apress, the name you’ve come to trust for hands–on technical knowledge, \u003cem\u003ePro Hadoop\u003c\/em\u003e brings you up to speed on Hadoop. You learn the ins and outs of MapReduce; how to structure a cluster, design, and implement the Hadoop file system; and how to build your first cloud–computing tasks using Hadoop. Learn how to let Hadoop take care of distributing and parallelizing your software—you just focus on the code, Hadoop takes care of the rest.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBest of all, you’ll learn from a tech professional who’s been in the Hadoop scene since day one. Written from the perspective of a principal engineer with down–in–the–trenches knowledge of what to do \u003cem\u003ewrong\u003c\/em\u003e with Hadoop, you learn how to avoid the common, expensive first errors that everyone makes with creating their own Hadoop system or inheriting someone else’s.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSkip the novice stage and the expensive, hard–to–fix mistakes...go straight to seasoned pro on the hottest cloud–computing framework with \u003cem\u003ePro Hadoop\u003c\/em\u003e. Your productivity will blow your managers away.\u003c\/p\u003e  What you’ll learn\u003cul\u003e   \u003cli\u003eSet up a stand–alone Hadoop cluster the smart way, laid out simply and step by step so you can get up and running quickly to build your next data center, collaborative, data–intensive Internet services application, Software as a Service (SaaS), and more. \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eOptimize your Hadoop production tasks like an experienced pro. \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eWork with time–proven, bulletproof standard patterns that have been tested and debugged in high–volume production. \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eUnderstand just enough theoretical knowledge to know why something works in Hadoop, without getting bogged down in abstruse walls of theory. \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eGet detailed explanations of not only \u003cem\u003ehow\u003c\/em\u003e to do something with Hadoop, but also \u003cem\u003ewhy\u003c\/em\u003e, from a front–line coder with years in the Hadoop game. \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eTurn someone else’s expensive cluster–wide “wrong” into an orderly, productive \"right\" with professional–level debugging and testing. \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003c\/ul\u003e  Who this book is for      \u003cp\u003e     IT professionals interested in investigating Hadoop and implementing it in their organizations, and existing Hadoop users who want to deepen their professional toolkits.         \u003c\/p\u003e     Table of Contents\u003col\u003e   \u003cli\u003eGetting Started with Hadoop Core \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eThe Basics of a MapReduce Job \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eThe Basics of Multimachine Clusters \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eHDFS Details for Multimachine Clusters \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eMapReduce Details for Multimachine Clusters \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eTuning Your MapReduce Jobs \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eUnit Testing and Debugging \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eAdvanced and Alternate MapReduce Techniques \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eSolving Problems with Hadoop \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eProjects Based On Hadoop and Future Directions \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Apress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122443698416,"sku":"9781430219439","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781430219439_p0.jpg?v=1763750171","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781430219439","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}