Hadoop Operations - Softcover

If you’ve been asked to maintain large and complex Hadoop clusters, this book is a must. Eric Sammer, Principal Solution Architect at Cloudera, shows you the particulars of running Hadoop in production, from planning, installing, and configuring the system to providing ongoing maintenance.

Rather than run through all possible scenarios, this pragmatic operations guide calls out what works, as demonstrated in critical deployments. The second edition is fully updated, and includes new developments surrounding the Hadoop 2 releases.

This book:

• Covers YARN, and the implications of the new YARN framework
• Explains updates to HDFS
• Includes information about Zookeeper
• Explains updated ways to plan for a Hadoop cluster
• Updates information about installing and tuning Hadoop
• Covers new developments in resource management

Eric Sammer is currently a Principal Solution Architect at Cloudera where he helps customers plan, deploy, develop for, and use Hadoop and the related projects at scale. His background is in the development and operations of distributed, highly concurrent, data ingest and processing systems. He's been involved in the open source community and has contributed to a large number of projects over the last decade.