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Google and its MapReduce framework may rule the roost when it comes to massive-scale data processing, but there’s still plenty of that goodness to go around. This article gets you started with Hadoop, ...

Some simple, kinda introductory projects based on Apache Hadoop to be used as guides in order to make the MapReduce model look less weird or boring. In this task, we had to calculate the average ...

When your data and work grow, and you still want to produce results in a timely manner, you start to think big. Your one beefy server reaches its limits. You need a way to spread your work across many ...