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Hadoop Operations and Cluster Management Cookbook

By : Shumin Guo
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Hadoop Operations and Cluster Management Cookbook

By: Shumin Guo

Overview of this book

<p>We are facing an avalanche of data. The unstructured data we gather can contain many insights that could hold the key to business success or failure. Harnessing the ability to analyze and process this data with Hadoop is one of the most highly sought after skills in today's job market. Hadoop, by combining the computing and storage powers of a large number of commodity machines, solves this problem in an elegant way!</p> <p>Hadoop Operations and Cluster Management Cookbook is a practical and hands-on guide for designing and managing a Hadoop cluster. It will help you understand how Hadoop works and guide you through cluster management tasks.</p> <p>This book explains real-world, big data problems and the features of Hadoop that enables it to handle such problems. It breaks down the mystery of a Hadoop cluster and will guide you through a number of clear, practical recipes that will help you to manage a Hadoop cluster.</p> <p>We will start by installing and configuring a Hadoop cluster, while explaining hardware selection and networking considerations. We will also cover the topic of securing a Hadoop cluster with Kerberos, configuring cluster high availability and monitoring a cluster. And if you want to know how to build a Hadoop cluster on the Amazon EC2 cloud, then this is a book for you.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Hadoop Operations and Cluster Management Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Hector Cuesta-Arvizu provides consulting services for software engineering and data analysis with over eight years of experience in a variety of industries, including financial services, social networking, e-learning, and Human Resources.

Hector holds a BA in Informatics and an MSc in Computer Science. His main research interests lie in Machine Learning, High Performance Computing, Big Data, Computational Epidemiology, and Data Visualization. He has also helped in the technical review of the book Raspberry Pi Networking Cookbook by Rick Golden, Packt Publishing. He has published 12 scientific papers in International Conferences and Journals. He is an enthusiast of Lego Robotics and Raspberry Pi in his spare time.

You can follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/hmCuesta.

Mark Kerzner holds degrees in Law, Math, and Computer Science. He has been designing software for many years and Hadoop-based systems since 2008. He is the President of SHMsoft, a provider of Hadoop applications for various verticals, and a co-author of the book/project Hadoop Illuminated. He has authored and co-authored books and patents.

Harvinder Singh Saluja has over 20 years of software architecture and development experience, and is the co-founder of MindTelligent, Inc. He works as Oracle SOA, Fusion MiddleWare, and Oracle Identity and Access Manager, and Oracle Big Data Specialist and Chief Integration Specialist at MindTelligent, Inc. Harvinder's strengths include his experience with strategy, concepts, and logical and physical architecture and development using Java/JEE/ADF/SEAM, SOA/AIA/OSB/OSR/OER, and OIM/OAM technologies.

He leads and manages MindTelligent's onshore and offshore and Oracle SOA/OSB/AIA/OSB/OER/OIM/OAM engagements. His specialty includes the AIA Foundation Pack – development of custom PIPS for Utilities, Healthcare, and Energy verticals. His integration engagements include CC&B (Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing), Oracle Enterprise Taxation and Policy, Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Management, Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management, Oracle eBusiness Suite, Siebel CRM, and Oracle B2B for EDI – X12 and EDIFACT.

His strengths include enterprise-wide security using Oracle Identity and Access Management, OID/OVD/ODSM/OWSM, including provisioning, workflows, reconciliation, single sign-on, SPML API, Connector API, and Web Services message and transport security using OWSM and Java cryptography.

He was awarded JDeveloper Java Extensions Developer of the Year award in 2003 by Oracle magazine.