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Modern Big Data Processing with Hadoop

You're reading from Modern Big Data Processing with Hadoop Expert techniques for architecting end-to-end big data solutions to get valuable insights

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787122765

Length 394 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Processing

Tools

Apache Spark

Concepts

Big Data

Authors (3):

R Patil

Shindgikar

Kumar

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

1. Enterprise Data Architecture Principles

2. Hadoop Life Cycle Management FREE CHAPTER

3. Hadoop Design Consideration

4. Data Movement Techniques

5. Data Modeling in Hadoop

6. Designing Real-Time Streaming Data Pipelines

7. Large-Scale Data Processing Frameworks

8. Building Enterprise Search Platform

9. Designing Data Visualization Solutions

10. Developing Applications Using the Cloud

11. Production Hadoop Cluster Deployment

Index

Flume

Flume is a reliable, available and distributed service to efficiently collect, aggregate, and transport large amounts of log data. It has a flexible and simple architecture that is based on streaming data flows. The current version of Apache Flume is 1.7.0, which was released in October 2016.

Apache Flume architecture

The following diagram depicts the architecture of Apache Flume:

Let's take a closer look at the components of the Apache Flume architecture:

Event: An event is a byte payload with optional string headers. It represents the unit of data that Flume can carry from its source to destination.
Flow: The transport of events from source to destination is considered a data flow, or just flow.
Agent: It is an independent process that hosts the components of Flume, such as sources, channels, and sinks. It thus has the ability to receive, store, and forward events to its next-hop destination.
Source: The source is an interface implementation. It has the ability to consume events that are...

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Authors (3)

R Patil

R Patil

Manoj R Patil is the Chief Architect in Big Data at Compassites Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd. where he overlooks the overall platform architecture related to Big Data solutions, and he also has a hands-on contribution to some assignments. He has been working in the IT industry for the last 15 years. He started as a programmer and, on the way, acquired skills in architecting and designing solutions, managing projects keeping each stakeholder's interest in mind, and deploying and maintaining the solution on a cloud infrastructure. He has been working on the Pentaho-related stack for the last 5 years, providing solutions while working with employers and as a freelancer as well. Manoj has extensive experience in JavaEE, MySQL, various frameworks, and Business Intelligence, and is keen to pursue his interest in predictive analysis. He was also associated with TalentBeat, Inc. and Persistent Systems, and implemented interesting solutions in logistics, data masking, and data-intensive life sciences.

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Shindgikar

Shindgikar

Prashant Shindgikar is an accomplished big data Architect with over 20 years of experience in data analytics. He specializes in data innovation and resolving data challenges for major retail brands. He is a hands-on architect having an innovative approach to solving data problems. He provides thought leadership and pursues strategies for engagements with the senior executives on innovation in data processing and analytics. He presently works for a large USA-based retail company.

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Kumar

Kumar

Naresh has more than a decade of professional experience in designing, implementing and running very large scale Internet Applications in Fortune Top 500 Companies. He is a Full Stack Architect with hands-on experience in domains like E-commerce, Web-hosting, Healthcare, Bigdata & Analytics, Data Streaming, Advertising and Databases. He believes in Opensource and contributes to them actively. He keeps himself up-to-date with emerging technologies starting from Linux Systems Internals to Frontend technologies. He studied in BITS-Pilani, Rajasthan with Dual Degree in Computer Science & Economics.

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