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Introduction to Big Data and Hadoop
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Delve into Big Data essentials, explore data types, and gain insights into Hadoop components like YARN, MapReduce, HDFS, and Spark. Discover foundations to excel in the growing Big Data field.

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This course offers a one-of-a-kind rich and interactive experience to learn the fundamentals and basics of Big Data. Throughout this course, you will have plenty of opportunities to get your hands dirty with functioning Hadoop clusters. You will start off by learning about the rise of Big Data as well as the different types of data like structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data. You will then dive into the fundamentals of Big Data such as YARN (yet another resource manager), MapReduce, HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System), and Spark. By the end of this course, you will have the foundations in place to start working with Big Data, which is a massively growing field.

This course offers a one-of-a-kind rich and interactive experience to learn the fundamentals and basics of Big Data. Throughout ...Show More

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96 Lessons30 Quizzes

1.

Hadoop

5 Lessons

Get familiar with Hadoop’s role in Big Data, its evolution, and core terminologies.

Rise of Big Data

Untitled Masterpiece

Big Data Defined

Big Data vs Data Warehouse

2.

YARN

3 Lessons

Walk through YARN's resource management, workflow, and scheduling for efficient cluster operation.

3.

Map Reduce

12 Lessons

Examine MapReduce's programming model, mapper, reducer, testing, execution, and resiliency in big data.

Testing Reducer

Testing MapReduce Program

Running MapReduce End to End

Exploring MapReduce Runs

Combiner and Partitioner

Putting it Together

4.

HDFS

11 Lessons

Enhance your skills in HDFS architecture, from filesystem fundamentals to practical commands.

The Big Picture

Disk Blocks & HDFS Blocks

Block Replication

Writing and Reading

High Availability

HDFS in Practice

HDFS in Practice II

5.

Spark

11 Lessons

Deepen your knowledge of Spark’s architecture, APIs, RDDs, DataFrames, and execution workflow.

Spark Application Life Cycle

Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs)

Running Spark Applications

Anatomy of a Spark Application

Execution of a Spark Application

6.

Input & Output Formats

12 Lessons

Follow the process of exploring input and output format efficiencies through SequenceFile, Avro, and Parquet.

Sequence File: Intro

Sequence File: Reading & Writing

Rows vs Columnar Databases

Avro: Code Generation

Avro: IDL & RPC

Parquet: Definition Level

Parquet: Repetition Level

Parquet: Reading & Writing

Parquet: Projection Schema & Misc. Tools

7.

Misc

5 Lessons

Master the steps to utilizing Zookeeper and Pig for managing distributed systems and parallel data processing.

Zookeeper: Intro

Zookeeper: Example

Zookeeper: Practical

8.

Quiz

6 Lessons

Get familiar with core Big Data and Hadoop concepts through structured quizzes.

9.

Reference: Replication

14 Lessons

Unpack the core of data replication techniques, consistency, latency, and conflict resolution in distributed systems.

Single Leader Replication

Asynchronous VS Synchronous Replication

Followers in Log Replication

Log Replication

Issues in Single Leader Replication

Multi Leader Replication

Issues in Multi Leader Replication

Multi-Leader Topologies

Leaderless Replication

Quorum Variations

Concurrent Writes

Video Streaming Queue a Concurrent Writes Example

10.

Reference: Partitioning

4 Lessons

Explore partitioning strategies to enhance scalability, fault tolerance, and query performance.

Partitioning Schemes

Secondary Indexes

Number of Partitions

11.

Reference: Transactions

9 Lessons

Find out about database transaction concepts and strategies for maintaining data integrity.

Introduction to Transactions

More On Transactions

Isolation Levels

Read Skew and Snapshot Isolation

Concurrent Writes and Lost Updates

Serializability

Two Phase Locking

Serializable Snapshot Isolation

12.

Reference: Issues in Distributed Systems

4 Lessons

Deepen your knowledge of complexities in distributed systems, network issues, and time synchronization.

Agreeing On Time

Working with Time issues

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

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