Description

? Offers a new approach to managing data

? Comprehensive coverage on building Big Data systems

? Works an example Big Data system to illustrate key concepts

Author

Nathan Marz is an engineer at Twitter. He was previously Lead Engineer at BackType, a marketing intelligence company that was acquired by Twitter in July of 2011. He is the author of two major open source projects: Storm, a distributed realtime computation system, and Cascalog, a tool for processing data on Hadoop. He is a frequent speaker and writes a blog at nathanmarz.com.

 

James Warren is an analytics architect at Storm8 with a background in big data processing, machine learning and scientific computing.