• Implement Spark's interactive shell to prototype distributed applications
• Deploy Spark jobs to various clusters such as Mesos, EC2, Chef, YARN, EMR, and so on
• Use Shark's SQL query-like syntax with...

Pro Microsoft HDInsight is a complete guide to deploying and using Apache Hadoop on the Microsoft Windows Azure Platforms. The information in this book enables you to process enormous volumes of structured as well as non-structured data easily using HDInsight, which is Microsoft’s own distribution of Apache Hadoop....

• Learn how to set up a Mahout development environment
• Start testing Mahout in a standalone Hadoop cluster
• Learn to find stock market direction using logistic regression
• Over 35 recipes with...

• Complete coverage of all aspects of Cassandra
• Discusses prominent patterns, pros and cons, and use cases
• Contains briefs on integration...

• Explore how to analyze your data in various innovative ways and turn them into insight
• Learn to use the D3.js visualization tool for exploratory data analysis
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In 2011 many computer users were exploring the opportunities and the benefits of the massive parallelism offered by heterogeneous computing. In 2000 the Khronos Group, a not-for-profit industry consortium, was founded to create standard open APIs for parallel computing, graphics and dynamic media. Among them has been OpenCL, an open system...

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• A thorough introduction to the new domain mode provided by...

• Learn how you can take advantage of IDE for debugging and testing Python applications
• Enhance your efficiency in Django development with Visual Studio IntelliSense
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• Automate your VMware vSphere environment including hosts, clusters, storage, and vCenter Server...

Faint Objects and How to Observe Them is for visual observers who are equipped with a 10-inch or larger astronomical telescope and who want to "go deep" with their observing. It provides a guide to some of the most distant, dim, and rarely observed objects in the sky, supported by background information on surveys and objects lists...