Part 3. Hadoop Gone Wild

Part 3 explores the larger ecosystem around Hadoop. Cloud services provide an alternative to buying and hosting your own hardware to create a Hadoop cluster. Many add-on packages provide higher-level programming abstractions over MapReduce. We show several case studies where Hadoop solves real business problems in practice.

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