Hadoop

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1. strlenJun 2010
   It's amazing how many cold calls you get if you mention Hadoop in your LinkedIn profile or resume. It's also a bit myopic: the strength of Hadoop and MapReduce in general is a simple, scale agnostic programming model. I can give somebody Tom White's book and they'll be able to write working code in few days.

   My team uses Hadoop extensively, but while a background with Hadoop never hurts (it's a great system that solves a difficult problem, but it has many quirks and rough edges that need to be worked around) it's much more important that the candidate is a great programmer and has domain specific skills (in data processing, information retrieval, machine learning, statistics, numerical analysis -- the tasks you typically use Hadoop for).

   Asking "how do you compute <some function> over <some dataset> on a cluster of unreliable, commodity machines, communicating through message passing" is a much better interview question to use than "what is the difference between TextInputFormat and SequenceFileInputFormat" and "what is the interface you implement to specify a custom partitioner and how do you configure the M/R job to use it".

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2. helwrApr 2010
   Linear Algebra by Axler

   Matrix Computations by Golub

   Collaborative filtering papers by Koren: http://research.yahoo.com/Yehuda_Koren

   Stanford paper which is the source of Mahout project: http://www.cs.stanford.edu/people/ang//papers/nips06-mapredu...

   Map Reduce algos book by Jimmy Lin: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/book.html

   Pattern Recognition by Bishop (or Theodoridis)

   Linear algebra by G.Strang

   Graph Theory by Gross

   Hadoop the definitive guide by Tom White

   Natural Language Processing by Manning

   Information Retrieval by Manning

   for additional references here is a great compilation: http://measuringmeasures.com/blog/2010/3/12/learning-about-m...

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3. hcoyoteFeb 2017
   Similarly, certain books show up multiple times, once for each version. It would be great if those were consolidated to the latest version of the book.

   An example of this is when you search for Hadoop. You'll find all 4 editions of Tom White's book show up in the top 10 listing.

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4. mariusz331Aug 2012
   My neighbor at work looks through this book all the time-

   http://www.amazon.com/Hadoop-Definitive-Guide-Tom-White/dp/1...

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