MapReduce for IdiotsPhoto by Stuart Pilbrow I'll admit it, I was intimidated by MapReduce. I'd tried to read explanations of it, but even the wonderful Joel Spolsky left me scratching my head. So I plowed ahead trying to build decent pipelines to process massive amounts of data without it. Finally my friend Andraz staged an intervention after I proudly described my latest setup: "Pete, that's Map Reduce". Sure enough
