Acknowledgments

While writing this book, I received help (both directly and indirectly) from a lot of people, and I would like to thank them all. Thanks to the Hadoop community and the user forums, from whom I have learned a great deal. There are many selfless people in the Hadoop community, and I feel that’s the biggest strength of the “Hadoop revolution.” In particular, thanks to my friend Satya Kondapalli for introducing Hadoop to me, and to my friends Naveed Asem and Zafar Ahmed for keeping me motivated!

I would like to thank the Intel Technical team (Bala Subramanian, Sunjay Karan, Manjunatha Prabhu) in Chicago for their help with Intel’s Hadoop distribution and encryption at rest, as well as Cloudera’s Justin Kestelyn for providing information ...

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