You've heard the hype about Hadoop: it runs petabyte-scale data mining tasks insanely fast, it runs gigantic tasks on clouds for absurdly cheap, it's been heavily committed to by tech giants like IBM, Yahoo!, and the Apache Project, and it's completely open source (thus free). But what exactly is it, and more importantly, how do you even get a Hadoop cluster up and running? From Apress, the name you've come to trust for hands-on technical knowledge, Pro Hadoop brings you up to speed on Hadoop. You learn the ins and outs of MapReduce; how to structure a cluster, design, and implement the Hadoop file system; and how to structure your first cloud-computing tasks using Hadoop. Learn how to let Hadoop take care of distributing and parallelizing your software-you just focus on the code, Hadoop takes care of the rest.
