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Big Data Essentials
This course serves as an introduction to the world of big data covering requirements, principles, technologies, and analytics.
What you'll learn
Big Data Essentials is a comprehensive introduction to the world of big data. Starting with the definition of big data, we describe the various characteristics of big data and its sources. Using real world examples, we highlight the growing importance of big data. We discuss architectural requirements, principles of big data infrastructures, and the intersection of cloud computing with big data. We also provide an overview of the most popular big data technologies including core Hadoop, the Hadoop ecosystem (Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Flume, Kafka, Storm, Ambari, Oozie, Zookeeper), NoSQL databases, and Apache Spark. We conclude this lesson with a tour of the different types of analytics that can be performed on big data as well as the various techniques and tools used.
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The Cloud Content team comprises subject matter experts hyper focused on services offered by the leading cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, and Azure), as well as cloud-related technologies such as Linux and DevOps. The team is thrilled to share their knowledge to help you build modern tech solutions from the ground up, secure and optimize your environments, and so much more!
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