Yuriy's blog

On March 11th I was speaking at Ciklum's Speakers' Corner about introduction to the big data. First of all I'd like to thank the HR department of Ciklum especially Rimma and Alexandra  for giving me this opportunity and the great place at Ciklum's SkyPoint . And of course I'd like to thank the everyone who came to this event for very nice professional discussion and good questions. I really appreciate your feedback, I already see few areas where I could improve my presentation skills as well as to ameliorate the topic of discussion, I think it is very important to keep in touch with the audience. For me also, I was happy to talk about the things I'm interested in and to find the like-minded people which could be a good start for a big data community in Ukraine. The presentation it-self is available here .

A huge and exhaustive book Hadoop: The Definitive Guide by Tom White is basically everything you need to understand the Hadoop and the "Zoo" of frameworks and libraries build on top of it. Lots of examples and detailed explanations including also chapters on how to set it up and administer. Indeed a guide to start to use your big data.