About the Authors

Edward Capriolo is currently System Administrator at Media6degrees where he helps design and maintain distributed data storage systems for the internet advertising industry.

Edward is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and a committer for the Hadoop-Hive project. He has experience as a developer as well Linux and network administrator and enjoys the rich world of open source software.

Dean Wampler is a Principal Consultant at Think Big Analytics, where he specializes in "Big Data" problems and tools like Hadoop and Machine Learning. Besides Big Data, he specializes in Scala, the JVM ecosystem, JavaScript, Ruby, functional and object-oriented programming, and Agile methods. Dean is a frequent speaker at industry and academic conferences on these topics. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Washington.

Jason Rutherglen is a software architect at Think Big Analytics and specializes in Big Data, Hadoop, search, and security.