Table Of ContentLearning Big Data with
Amazon Elastic MapReduce
Easily learn, build, and execute real-world Big Data
solutions using Hadoop and AWS EMR
Amarkant Singh
Vijay Rayapati
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Learning Big Data with Amazon Elastic MapReduce
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Amarkant Singh Judie Jose
Vijay Rayapati
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About the Authors
Amarkant Singh is a Big Data specialist. Being one of the initial users of Amazon
Elastic MapReduce, he has used it extensively to build and deploy many Big Data
solutions. He has been working with Apache Hadoop and EMR for almost 4 years
now. He is also a certified AWS Solutions Architect. As an engineer, he has designed
and developed enterprise applications of various scales. He is currently leading the
product development team at one of the most happening cloud-based enterprises in
the Asia-Pacific region. He is also an all-time top user on Stack Overflow for EMR at
the time of writing this book. He blogs at http://www.bigdataspeak.com/ and is
active on Twitter as @singh_amarkant.
Vijay Rayapati is the CEO of Minjar Cloud Solutions Pvt. Ltd., one of the leading
providers of cloud and Big Data solutions on public cloud platforms. He has over
10 years of experience in building business rule engines, data analytics platforms,
and real-time analysis systems used by many leading enterprises across the world,
including Fortune 500 businesses. He has worked on various technologies such as
LISP, .NET, Java, Python, and many NoSQL databases. He has rearchitected and led
the initial development of a large-scale location intelligence and analytics platform
using Hadoop and AWS EMR. He has worked with many ad networks, e-commerce,
financial, and retail companies to help them design, implement, and scale their data
analysis and BI platforms on the AWS Cloud. He is passionate about open source
software, large-scale systems, and performance engineering. He is active on Twitter
as @amnigos, he blogs at amnigos.com, and his GitHub profile is https://github.
com/amnigos.
Acknowledgments
We would like to extend our gratitude to Udit Bhatia and Kartikeya Sinha from
Minjar's Big Data team for their valuable feedback and support. We would also
like to thank the reviewers and the Packt Publishing team for their guidance in
improving our content.
About the Reviewers
Venkat Addala has been involved in research in the area of Computational
Biology and Big Data Genomics for the past several years. Currently, he is working
as a Computational Biologist in Positive Bioscience, Mumbai, India, which provides
clinical DNA sequencing services (it is the first company to provide clinical DNA
sequencing services in India). He understands Biology in terms of computers and
solves the complex puzzle of the human genome Big Data analysis using Amazon
Cloud. He is a certified MongoDB developer and has good knowledge of Shell,
Python, and R. His passion lies in decoding the human genome into computer
codecs. His areas of focus are cloud computing, HPC, mathematical modeling,
machine learning, and natural language processing. His passion for computers
and genomics keeps him going.
Vijay Raajaa G.S leads the Big Data / semantic-based knowledge discovery
research with the Mu Sigma's Innovation & Development group. He previously
worked with the BSS R&D division at Nokia Networks and interned with Ericsson
Research Labs. He had architected and built a feedback-based sentiment engine and
a scalable in-memory-based solution for a telecom analytics suite. He is passionate
about Big Data, machine learning, Semantic Web, and natural language processing.
He has an immense fascination for open source projects. He is currently researching on
building a semantic-based personal assistant system using a multiagent framework. He
holds a patent on churn prediction using the graph model and has authored a white
paper that was presented at a conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications.
He can be connected at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gsvijayraajaa.
Gaurav Kumar has been working professionally since 2010 to provide solutions
for distributed systems by using open source / Big Data technologies. He has
hands-on experience in Hadoop, Pig, Hive, Flume, Sqoop, and NoSQLs such as
Cassandra and MongoDB. He possesses knowledge of cloud technologies and
has production experience of AWS.
His area of expertise includes developing large-scale distributed systems to analyze
big sets of data. He has also worked on predictive analysis models and machine
learning. He architected a solution to perform clickstream analysis for Tradus.com.
He also played an instrumental role in providing distributed searching capabilities
using Solr for GulfNews.com (one of UAE's most-viewed newspaper websites).
Learning new languages is not a barrier for Gaurav. He is particularly proficient
in Java and Python, as well as frameworks such as Struts and Django. He has
always been fascinated by the open source world and constantly gives back to the
community on GitHub. He can be contacted at https://www.linkedin.com/in/
gauravkumar37 or on his blog at http://technoturd.wordpress.com. You can
also follow him on Twitter @_gauravkr.
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