It’s been a while since I have posted… in the midst of trying to plow through this dissertation while working on papers for submission to some conferences. Hadoop has become the de facto standard in the research and industry uses of small and large-scale MapReduce. Since its inception, an entire ecosystem has been built around it including conferences (Hadoop World, Hadoop Summit), books, training
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