2014/07/03

Welcoming post - Motivation and objectives

Hi,

This is my first post at this blog. The principal motivation to create it has been the lack of official (and unofficial) information regarding to the creation and administration of clusters and Hadoop applications in Amazon's Elastic MapReduce using its Java API. In fact, most of the official information refers to the use of the command line interface. My main aim is to provide programmers facilities and useful information to create clusters and deploy Hadoop applications as fast and easy as possible. 

In my personal case, I had to read almost the entire API documentation in order to be able to create clusters and start deploying Hadoop applications. I believe it's the best way to learn how to use a certain API, although I too believe some facilities are never rejected by a newbie. I hope the readers will find the provided information useful for their purposes, and in any case I will try to be active answering any possible question or suggestion.

As you probably have already noticed, English is not my native language, so expect to found several mistakes of all kind; any correction will be accepted gratefully.

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