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Interview: Yahoo's Doug Cutting on MapReduce and the Future of Hadoop

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Sep 12, 2007 less than one minute

Hadoop is an open source distributed computing platform that includes implementations of MapReduce and a distributed file system. Last month InfoQ covered Jeremy Zawodny's overview of the speed increases in Hadoop over the last year.  InfoQ's lead Java editor, Scott Delap, recently caught up with Hadoop project lead Doug Cutting.    In this special InfoQ interview Cutting discusses how Hadoop is used at Yahoo, the challenges of its development, and the future direction of the project:

Yahoo's Doug Cutting on MapReduce and the Future of Hadoop

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