Part 1. Background and fundamentals

Part 1 of this book contains chapter 1, which looks at Hadoop’s components and its ecosystem. The chapter then provides instructions for installing a pseudo-distributed Hadoop setup on a single host, and includes a system for you to run all of the examples in the book. Chapter 1 also covers the basics of Hadoop configuration, and walks you through how to write and run a Map-Reduce job on your new setup.

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