Central Ohio Linux Users Group presentation on Apache Hadoop, Map Reduce, HDFS and more

Long-time COLUG member Tom Hanlon will present Apache Hadoop, Map Reduce, HDFS and more. As a platform for distributed computing written in Java, there is a universe of associated tools: hbase, hive, pig, or further afield, zookeeper. Tom's presentation will lay the groundwork, and attendee questions will drive the bulk of the meeting.

Meeting attendees are encouraged to download a virtual machine with Apache Hadoop pre-installed. It should run in Virtualbox with perhaps a few hoops to jump through.

Or one could grab an RPM install. Tom suggests psuedo-distributed. Instructions here for RPM or DEB based. 

Or one could grab the tarball and install from there. According to Tom:

• VM is easiest.
• RPM or DEB next easiest.
• Tarball is not so hard.

As always, feel free to bring with you any ailing or problematic systems for expert diagnosis (or destruction). The upcoming meeting is open to the general public, and all with an interest in Free Software, Open Source, Apache, MySQL, Perl, PHP, Linux, BSD, Unix, Windows, are invited.

There are no dues or fees.

Giveaways include two Wrox books:

•  Design - Build - Run; Applied Practices and Principles for Production-Ready Software Development (Dave Ingram)
•  Code Leader; Using People, Tools, and Processes to Build Successful Software