Summary
In this chapter, we started by learning about the origins of big data problems. We learned how Google publications gave rise to the development of Hadoop and its ecosystem of tools and how the engineering teams at Yahoo were the main driving force behind the evolution of Hadoop.
We covered how industrial scale use of Hadoop at Yahoo paved the way for the commercial scale of adoption of Hadoop in diverse industry segments.
We learned about the design of the HDFS and MapReduce as computing paradigms followed by an overview of the tools in the Hadoop ecosystem. We developed a MapReduce program and also studied how to run it on Hadoop.
The latter part of this chapter was devoted to giving you a brief overview of cases covered in this book, which ...
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