This book uses concise code examples to highlight different types of real-world problems you can solve with Hadoop. It is designed for developers with varying levels of comfort using Hadoop and related tools. Hadoop beginners can use the recipes to accelerate the learning curve and see real-world examples of Hadoop application. For more experienced Hadoop developers, many of the tools and techniques might expose them to new ways of thinking or help clarify a framework they had heard of but the value of which they had not really understood.