Enterprise Data Workflows with Cascading: Streamlined Enterprise Data Management and Analysis

by Paco Nathan

There is an easier way to build Hadoop applications. With this hands-on book, you’ll learn how to use Cascading, the open source abstraction framework for Hadoop that lets you easily create and manage powerful enterprise-grade data processing applications―without having to learn the intricacies of MapReduce. Working with sample apps based on Java and other JVM languages, you’ll quickly learn Cascading’s streamlined approach to data processing, data filtering, and workflow optimization. This book demonstrates how this framework can help your business extract meaningful information from large amounts of distributed data.

167 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Evil Mad Scientist

https://derwen.ai/paco
https://www.instagram.com/pacoid/

Programming since 1972. I made the "mistake" of studying AI in grad school at Stanford a few decades ago; perseverance pays off :)

Sometimes an author and more often a speaker/instructor, in a lot of venues, although even more often working as an engineering director or consultant.

"One of the cornerstones of Modern Mass Weirdness in the late 20th Century" - Ivan Stang.