What you need for this book
You'll need a computer with a Java Virtual Machine installed, since Flume is written in Java. If you don't have Java on your computer, you can download it from http://java.com/.
You will also need an Internet connection so that you can download Flume to run the Quick Start example.
This book covers Apache Flume 1.5.2.
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