Individual self-contained code recipes. Solve specific problems using individual recipes, or work through the book to develop your capabilities. If you are a big data enthusiast and striving to use Hadoop to solve your problems, this book is for you. Aimed at Java programmers with some knowledge of Hadoop MapReduce, this is also a comprehensive reference for developers and system admins who want to get up to speed using Hadoop.
Author Biography
Srinath Perera is a senior software architect at WSO2 Inc., where he overlooks the overall WSO2 platform architecture with the CTO. He also serves as a research scientist at Lanka Software Foundation and teaches as a visiting faculty at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa. He is a co-founder of the Apache Axis2 open source project, and he has been involved with the Apache Web Service project since 2002 and is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and the Apache Web Service project PMC. Srinath is also a committer of Apache opensource projects Axis, Axis2, and Geronimo. Srinath received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Sciences from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA and received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Srinath has authored many technical and peer reviewed research articles, and more detail can be found on his website. He is also a frequent speaker at technical venues. Thilina Gunarathne is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Informatics and Computing of Indiana University. He has extensive experience in using Apache Hadoop and related technologies for large-scale data intensive computations. His current work focuses on developing technologies to perform scalable and efficient large-scale data intensive computations on cloud environments. He has published several papers on extending the MapReduce model to perform efficient data mining and data analytics computations on clouds. Thilina has contributed to several open source projects at the Apache Software Foundation as a commiter and a PMC member. Before starting his graduate studies, Thilina worked as a senior software engineer at WSO2 Inc., focusing on open source middleware development. Thilina received his BSc in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in 2006 and received his MSc in Computer Science from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA in 2009. He expects to receive his doctorate in the field of distributed computing in 2013.
