Summary

In this chapter, we have covered a wide array of ideas, with the central theme of keeping your focus latched on to Pig and then exploring its periphery. We understood what design patterns are and the way they are discovered and applied, from the perspective of Pig. We explored what Hadoop is, but we did it from a viewpoint of the historical enterprise context and figured out how Hadoop rewrote the history of distributed computing by addressing the challenges of the traditional architectures.

We understood how Pig brought in a fresh approach to programming Hadoop in an intuitive style, and we could comprehend the advantages it offers over other approaches of programming, plus it has given us the facility to write code in scripting-like language, ...

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