Chapter 11. Where to Go Next

This book has, as the title suggests, sought to give a beginner to Hadoop in-depth knowledge of the technology and its application. As has been seen on several occasions, there is a lot more to the Hadoop ecosystem than the core product itself. We will give a quick highlight of some potential areas of interest in this chapter.

In this chapter we will discuss:

  • What we covered in this book
  • What we didn't cover in this book
  • Upcoming Hadoop changes
  • Alternative Hadoop distributions
  • Other significant Apache projects
  • Alternative programming abstractions
  • Sources of information and help

What we did and didn't cover in this book

With our focus on beginners, the aim of this book was to give you a strong grounding in the core Hadoop concepts ...

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