Getting started with MapReduce/Hadoop [closed]

Question

Lately, i have reading a lot about MapReduce/Hadoop and think this is where industry is currently moving to. I want to start learning MapReduce/Hadoop and i thought the best way to start would be to implement some small project. However, i tried to do some googling, but couldnt find anything.

Can you guys give me some links or may be some books that can give me a practical introduction to this technology. May be a small project that i can implement on my own to get a better understanding of the technology.

Thanks, Chander

Answer 1

Cloudera (releases a Hadoop distribution) has some fantastic online training videos as well as a virtual machine with everything setup and able to run through examples from the online free training http://www.cloudera.com/resources/?type=Training

Answer 2

The most common examples that get thrown around are creating an inverted index, and implementing grep.

If you're looking for more information:

A really friendly introduction can be found here. The original paper is here.

And what looks like some good example code to get you going is here.