Hadoop: Data Processing and Modelling

What you need for this learning path

In the simplest case, a single Linux-based machine will give you a platform to explore almost all the exercises in this course. We assume you have a recent distribution of Ubuntu, but as long as you have command-line Linux familiarity any modern distribution will suffice. Some of the examples in later chapters really need multiple machines to see things working, so you will require access to at least four such hosts. Virtual machines are completely acceptable; they're not ideal for production but are fine for learning and exploration. Since we also explore Amazon Web Services in this course, you can run all the examples on EC2 instances, and we will look at some other more Hadoop-specific uses of AWS throughout ...