Praise for the First Edition of Hadoop in Practice

A new book from Manning, Hadoop in Practice, is definitely the most modern book on the topic. Important subjects, like what commercial variants such as MapR offer, and the many different releases and APIs get uniquely good coverage in this book.

Ted Dunning, Chief Application Architect, MapR Technologies

Comprehensive coverage of advanced Hadoop usage, including high-quality code samples.

Chris Nauroth, Senior Staff Software Engineer The Walt Disney Company

A very pragmatic and broad overview of Hadoop and the Hadoop tools ecosystem, with a wide set of interesting topics that tickle the creative brain.

Mark Kemna, Chief Technology Officer, Brilig

A practical introduction to the Hadoop ecosystem.

Philipp K. Janert, Principal Value, LLC

This book is the horizontal roof that each of the pillars of individual Hadoop technology books hold. It expertly ties together all the Hadoop ecosystem technologies.

Ayon Sinha, Big Data Architect, Britely

I would take this book on my path to the future.

Alexey Gayduk, Senior Software Engineer, Grid Dynamics

A high-quality and well-written book that is packed with useful examples. The breadth and detail of the material is by far superior to any other Hadoop reference guide. It is perfect for anyone who likes to learn new tools/technologies while following pragmatic, real-world examples.

Amazon reviewer