MapReduce developers face a steep learning curve when first deploying and configuring a Hadoop cluster and later when verifying program correctness. Compounded by long execution times (measured in ...

What are some of the cool things in the 2.0 release of Hadoop? To start, how about a revamped MapReduce? And what would you think of a high availability (HA) implementation of the Hadoop Distributed ...

In a recent article, I wrote about how you could create a Hadoop cluster within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. After completing that article, it occurred to me that it might be useful for to ...