Reviews

On Nov 18 Christopher Maneu wrote: If you want learn Flume, you want this book
If you want to manage a stream of data to go from one point to a big data system (Hadoop, ElasticSearch, ...), Flume may be your best choice. If Flume is your choice, then, this book is your best first step in learning Flume. Full Review  >

Rating: 5.0

On Oct 11 Arthur Zubarev wrote: Using Flume: Flexible, Scalable, and Reliable Data Streaming by Hari Shreedharan, O’Reilly Media Book Review
Using Flume is one of the books from the so called Big Data series. Flume is one of the graduated projects from the Apache foundation incubator and as of time of this writing is at version 1.5 which means (in the OSS terms) a mature product. How battle tested it is I cannot say as I am not using it, but our world increasingly relies on fast and distributed methods of log data processing. I truly believe it is worth investing time in learning tomorrow’s technology and propose using it at the right moment and opportunity. I am confident my own journey through data will naturally take me to using Flume some day, and I may not be surprised if it is happening soon. This book I am sure is going to take a Big Data practitioner (like myself) a step or two further regardless. If you are looking at entering a project or POC involving Flume, then this book is a must. If you are using it already this book is worth your buck too and not only for “just in case”. The work of Hari (who worked at such iconic companies as Yahoo! before Cloudera) is probably fundamental to Flume. Here is why it helps: Assessing whether Flume is the appropriate fit to address your project/business needs/goals; The book has seemingly enough code (Java only) to create simple Flume extensions or indices Full coverage of the three popular data serializations techniques Persisting logs and even in-transit processing Optimization of Flume Performance tuning and monitoring If you want to know why I gave this book a 4 out of 5 star rating is because The structure, or flow of the book I see supposed to be different, 1st should be basics 1st, it is not too logically outlined The book is a tad dry (to my taste maybe), what I mean there are no practical, “from the trenches” examples on why this and that setup, configuration is needed in what circumstances; Java centric and discusses only the Apache products Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book in exchange of writing a review as per the reader review program rules. Full Review  >

Rating: 4.0

On Oct 9 Surachart Opun wrote: Learn Deploy|Develop Flume with Expert
Begin with Apache Flume as newbie, it might spend a bit time for learning. However, A book gave idea to better understand. It's helpful for operation and deployment Flume. Additional. It gave example for customize components. Author separated each Chapter for Flume Data flow model. So, Readers can choose each chapter to read for part of Data flow model.Each chapter has references topic, that readers can use it to find out more and very easy + quick to use in Ebook. Full Review  >

Rating: 4.0

On Oct 2 Tushar Jain wrote: Must read for players in Hadoop gaame
Using Flume: Stream Data into HDFS and HBase is for developers as well as Administrators of Hadoop clusters. Full Review  >

Rating: 4.0