December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
171 pages
4h 16m
English
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Chapter 1. Introduction to Amazon Elastic MapReduce
In programming, as in many fields, the hard part isn’t solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve.
— Paul Graham Great Hackers
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