Want to learn more about big data? This video by Brenden Matthews on running Hadoop on Mesos will be a good start.
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Apache Hadoop is open source software for handling large data sets using distributed computing. This engaging video by Airbnb engineer Brenden Matthews explains Hadoop in historical context. I found it useful for familiarizing myself with general Hadoop terminology and concepts.
Note: This presentation was made in 2013 — and in the ever-changing world of computers some facts might change over the span of three years.
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