About This Book

Construct state-of-the-art applications using higher-level interfaces and tools beyond the traditional MapReduce approach
Use the unique features of Hadoop 2 to model and analyze Twitter's global stream of user generated data
Develop a prototype on a local cluster and deploy to the cloud (Amazon Web Services)

Who This Book Is ForIf you are a system or application developer interested in learning how to solve practical problems using the Hadoop framework, then this book is ideal for you. You are expected to be familiar with the Unix/Linux command-line interface and have some experience with the Java programming language. Familiarity with Hadoop would be a plus.