I am proud to announce my latest series of screencasts on Hadoop MapReduce. It’s published again by the good people at Pragmatic Programmers. These screencasts are the best way for a beginner to learn about Hadoop, unless they’re sitting in my class at...
My original review of Hadoop The Definitive Guide (TDG) was for the 2nd edition. Recently, the 3rd edition was released. I reread the book in its entirety. The new edition covers the latest changes to the 1.x (0.20) and the 2.x (0.23). The book’s examples now...
Update: Be sure to check out my screencast covering this project. Note: This is a very long, technical and detailed discussion of Amazon Web Services. You can watch the YouTube video below for a less technical explanation or skip to the conclusion to get the results....
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;I come to recreate Shakespeare, not to praise him.- Monkey Julius Caesar Update 1: The monkeys recreated every work of Shakespeare and went viral. See the project project postmortem for my thoughts on going viral and what...
Update 5: The monkeys recreated every work of Shakespeare and went viral. See the project project postmortem for my thoughts on going viral and what I learned during the project. Update 6: I created a new visualization of the monkeys’ data. Update 4: The monkeys...
