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Apache Oozie Essentials

By : Jagat Singh
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Apache Oozie Essentials

By: Jagat Singh

Overview of this book

As more and more organizations are discovering the use of big data analytics, interest in platforms that provide storage, computation, and analytic capabilities is booming exponentially. This calls for data management. Hadoop caters to this need. Oozie fulfils this necessity for a scheduler for a Hadoop job by acting as a cron to better analyze data. Apache Oozie Essentials starts off with the basics right from installing and configuring Oozie from source code on your Hadoop cluster to managing your complex clusters. You will learn how to create data ingestion and machine learning workflows. This book is sprinkled with the examples and exercises to help you take your big data learning to the next level. You will discover how to write workflows to run your MapReduce, Pig ,Hive, and Sqoop scripts and schedule them to run at a specific time or for a specific business requirement using a coordinator. This book has engaging real-life exercises and examples to get you in the thick of things. Lastly, you’ll get a grip of how to embed Spark jobs, which can be used to run your machine learning models on Hadoop. By the end of the book, you will have a good knowledge of Apache Oozie. You will be capable of using Oozie to handle large Hadoop workflows and even improve the availability of your Hadoop environment.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Apache Oozie Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Siva Prakash has been working in the field of software development for the last 7 years. Currently, he is working with CISCO, Bangalore. He has an extensive development experience in desktop-, mobile-, and web-based applications in ERP, telecom, and the digital media industry. He has passion for learning new technologies and sharing knowledge thus gained with others. He has worked on big data technologies for the digital media industry. He loves trekking, travelling, music, reading books, and blogging.

He is available on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/techsivam.

Rahul Tekchandani is a Hadoop software developer who specializes in building and developing Hadoop data platforms for big financial institutions. With experience in software design, development, and support, he has engineered strong, data-driven applications using the Cloudera's Hadoop Distribution. Rahul has also worked as an information architect to support data sanitization and data governance.

Prior to his career in software development, he completed his masters in Management of Information Systems at University of Arizona and worked on academic projects for top tech and banking companies.

He currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. Visit his developer's blog at www.rahultekchandani.com to see what he is currently exploring, and to learn more about him.