Big Data: Principles and Best Practices of Scalable Realtime Data Systems

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By Sam Ritchie ’09

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(Manning Publications) In this book, Marz and Ritchie look at managing data that is too big to be handled in a traditional database. They provide information on how to take advantage of new tools like Hadoop, Cassandra, and Thrift, in order to build architecture to manage the data. Ritchie is an engineer at Twitter.

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