About the Authors

NICK DIMIDUK stumbled into HBase in 2008 when his nightly ETL jobs started taking 20+ hours to complete. Since then, he has applied Hadoop and HBase to projects in social media, social gaming, click-stream analysis, climatology, and geographic data. Nick also helped establish Seattle’s Scalability Meetup and tried his hand at entrepreneurship. His current passion is distributed, scalable, online access to scientific data.

AMANDEEP KHURANA is a Solutions Architect at Cloudera, Inc., where he works with customers on their Hadoop and HBase adoption lifecycle—from planning to building and deploying applications built to scale. Prior to Cloudera, Amandeep worked with Amazon Web Services as a part of the Elastic MapReduce team. Amandeep’s background is in large-scale distributed systems and information management.