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Many corporations are finding that the size of their data sets are outgrowing the capability of their systems to store and process them. The data is becoming too big to manage and use with traditional tools. The solution: implementing a big data system.

As Big Data Made Easy: A Working Guide to the Complete Hadoop Toolset shows, Apache Hadoop offers a scalable, fault-tolerant system for storing and processing data in parallel. It has a very rich toolset that allows for storage (Hadoop), configuration (YARN and ZooKeeper), collection (Nutch and Solr), processing (Storm, Pig, and Map Reduce), scheduling (Oozie), moving (Sqoop and Avro), monitoring (Chukwa, Ambari, and Hue), testing (Big Top), and analysis (Hive).

The problem is that the Internet offers IT pros wading into big data many versions of the truth and some outright falsehoods born of ignorance. What is needed is a book just like this one: a wide-ranging but easily understood set of instructions to explain where to get Hadoop tools, what they can do, how to install them, how to configure them, how to integrate them, and how to use them successfully. And you need an expert who has worked in this area for a decade - someone just like author and big data expert Mike Frampton.

Big Data Made Easy approaches the problem of managing massive data sets from a systems perspective, and it explains the roles for each project (like architect and tester, for example) and shows how the Hadoop toolset can be used at each system stage. It explains, in an easily understood manner and through numerous examples, how to use each tool. The book also explains the sliding scale of tools available depending upon data size and when and how to use them. Big Data Made Easy shows developers and architects, as well as testers and project managers, how to:

Store big data
Configure big data
Process big data
Schedule processes
Move data among SQL and NoSQL systems
Monitor data
Perform big data analytics
Report on big data processes and projects
Test big data systems
Big Data Made Easy also explains the best part, which is that this toolset is free. Anyone can download it and - with the help of this book - start to use it within a day. With the skills this book will teach you under your belt, you will add value to your company or client immediately, not to mention your career.

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The Problem with Data

Storing and Configuring Data with Hadoop, Yarn, and ZooKeeper

Collecting Data with Nutch and Solr

Processing Data Map Reduce

Scheduling Using Oozie

Moving Data with Sqoop and Avro

Monitoring the System with Chukwa, Ambari, and Hue

Analyzing and Querying Data with Hive and MongoDB

Reporting with Hadoop and Other Software

Testing with Big Top

Hadoop Present and Future

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Mike Frampton has been in the IT industry since 1990, working in many roles (tester, developer, support, QA), and in many sectors ( telecoms, banking, energy, insurance). He has also worked for major corporations and banks, including IBM, HP, and JPMorgan Chase. The owner of Semtech Solutions, an IT/Big Data consultancy, Mike currently lives by the beach in Paraparaumu, New Zealand, with his wife and son.

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