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Big Data Architect???s Handbook

You're reading from Big Data Architect???s Handbook A guide to building proficiency in tools and systems used by leading big data experts

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788835824

Length 486 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Hadoop

Concepts

Big Data

Author (1):

Akhtar

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Contributors

Preface

1. Why Big Data? FREE CHAPTER

2. Big Data Environment Setup

3. Hadoop Ecosystem

4. NoSQL Database

5. Off-the-Shelf Commercial Tools

6. Containerization

7. Network Infrastructure

8. Cloud Infrastructure

9. Security and Monitoring

10. Frontend Architecture

11. Backend Architecture

12. Machine Learning

13. Artificial Intelligence

14. Elasticsearch

15. Structured Data

16. Unstructured Data

17. Data Visualization

18. Financial Trading System

19. Retail Recommendation System

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Index

API

API stands for application programming interface. It is used to allow a third-party application to interact with the desired application having predefined methods or calls. Each method is exposed to receive a call with or without some parameters and as a result, it gives a response with related output.

There are many different types of APIs available. Some of the examples are computer APIs, desktop APIs, different type of sensors APIs, in short if any hardware or software is open to allow any third-party application to interact with them, it has to expose an API for that purpose.

Here we will mainly be exploring web-based API. There are two types of web-based API. The first one is Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and the other one is Representational State Transfer (REST). Basically, they are different in terms of technology. SOAP is a protocol for web service. It means that it has some specific guidelines to exchange structured information using XML documents, whereas REST is an architectural...

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Authors (1)

Akhtar

Akhtar

Syed Muhammad Fahad Akhtar has 12+ years of industry experience in analysis, designing, developing, integrating, and managing large applications in different industries. He has vast exposure of working in UAE, Pakistan, and Malaysia and is currently working in ASIT Solutions as a solution architect. He received his masters from Torrens University, Australia, and bachelor of science in computer engineering from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST), Pakistan.

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