Big Data is a hot topic today, with promises that it can cure cancer, automate away your jobs, and most importantly provide accurate movie suggestions on Netflix. When reading about Big Data, however, you’ll rarely hear PHP mentioned. In this chapter, you’ll look at what, exactly, Big Data is and see why it’s perfectly possible to process Big Data using PHP. And of course, given the topic of this book, you’ll look at how functional programming is a perfect way to structure your Big Data–crunching programs to help you reason about and manage the processes necessary to deal with data ...
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9. Processing Big Data with Functional PHP
Rob Aley1
(1)Oxford, UK
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