How-To : Setup Development Environment for Hadoop MapReduce

This post is intended for folks who are looking out for a quick start on developing a basic Hadoop MapReduce application. We will see how to set up a basic MR application for WordCount using Java, Maven and Eclipse and run a basic MR program in local mode , which is easy for debugging at … Continue reading How-To : Setup Development Environment for Hadoop MapReduce →

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Free Online Hadoop Trainings

Hadoop and Big Data are becoming the new hot trends of the industry , being the most sought out skills in the market.There are various vendors and online training providers coming up with a nice explanation of some of the core concepts underlying Hadoop frameworks like Mapreduce,HDFS and various components involved in Hadoop Ecosystem.I will try to list down some of these resources here -

1. Udacity - Cloudera came with this nice course named "Intro to Hadoop and MapReduce" .This provides a nice explanation of the core concepts and internal working of hadoop components embedded with quizzes around each concept and some good handson exercies.They also provide VM for training purpose, which can be used to run example questions and to solve quizzes and exams for the courses.

Goals -

• How Hadoop fits into the world (recognize the problems it solves)
• Understand the concepts of HDFS and MapReduce (find out how it solves the problems)
• Write MapReduce programs (see how we solve the problems)
• Practice solving problems on your own

Prerequisites -

Some basic programming knowledge and a good interest in learning :)

2. Introduction to Mapreduce Programming

3. Moving Data in to Hadoop