Expert Hadoop® Administration

Acknowledgments

Writing a book is always the work of a team, of which the author is but one of the members. I’d like to acknowledge the immense help provided during the writing of this book by various people, starting with Debra Williams Cauley, executive editor at Addison-Wesley, who oversaw the writing and production of this book. Debra is probably the hardest working and most earnest editor I’ve worked with, and her dedication to the project and the sense of urgency with which she managed everything has had a huge influence on the way I approached this project, especially towards the later parts of the project.

I owe an immense debt to Chris Zahn for his astute editing of the book, while being enormously kind and graceful throughout the arduous ...