Ch. 1. Getting started with Hadoop core -- Ch. 2. The basics of a MapReduce job -- Ch. 3. The basics of multimachine clusters -- Ch. 4. HDFS details for multimachine clusters -- Ch. 5. MapReduce details for multimachine clusters -- Ch. 6. Tuning your MapReduce jobs -- Ch. 7. Unit testing and debugging -- Ch. 8. Advanced and alternate MapReduce techniques -- Ch. 9. Solving problems with Hadoop -- Ch. 10. Projects based on Hadoop and future directions -- App. A. The JobConf object in detail
Summary
"You learn the ins and outs of MapReduce; how to structure a cluster, design, and implement the Hadoop file system; and how to structure your first cloud--computing tasks using Hadoop. Learn how to let Hadoop take care of distributing and parallelizing your software--you just focus on the code, Hadoop takes care of the rest"--Resource description page
