Hadoop Operations
and Cluster
Management
Cookbook
Over 60 recipes showing you how to design, congure,
manage, monitor, and tune a Hadoop cluster
Shumin Guo
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Hadoop Operations and Cluster Management
Cookbook
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Author
Shumin Guo
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About the Author
Shumin Guo is a PhD student of Computer Science at Wright State University in Dayton, OH.
His research elds include Cloud Computing and Social Computing. He is enthusiastic about
open source technologies and has been working as a System Administrator, Programmer, and
Researcher at State Street Corp. and LexisNexis.
I would like to sincerely thank my wife, Min Han, for her support both
technically and mentally. This book would not have been possible without
encouragement from her.
