MapReduce programming idiom
In the FP world, MapReduce is considered as a programming idiom.
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The process of mapping can be described as the application of a function or computation on each element of a sequence to produce a new sequence. Reduction gathers computed elements to produce the result of a process, algorithm, or a functional transformation.
In 2003, two Google engineers (Sanjay Ghemawat and Jeff Dean) published a paper about how the company used the MapReduce programming model to simplify their distributed programming tasks. The paper entitled MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters is available on the public domain. This particular paper was very influential, and the Hadoop distributed programming model was based on ...
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