Danil Zburivsky - Hadoop Cluster Deployment

Danil Zburivsky is a database professional with a focus on open source technologies. Danil started his career as a MySQL database administrator and is currently working as a consultant at Pythian, a global data infrastructure management company. At Pythian, Danil was involved in building a number of Hadoop clusters for customers in financial, entertainment, and communication sectors.

Danil's other interests include writing fun things in Python, robotics, and machine learning. He is also a regular speaker at various industrial events.

I would like to thank my wife for agreeing to sacrifice most of our summer evenings while I was working on the book. I would also like to thank my colleagues from Pythian, especially Alan Gardner, Cyril Ganchev, and Yanick Champoux, who contributed a lot to this project.

Skanda Bhargav is an Engineering graduate from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, Karnataka, India. He did his majors in Computer Science and Engineering. He is currently employed with an MNC based out of Bangalore. Skanda is a Cloudera Certified developer in Apache Hadoop. His interests are Big Data and Hadoop.

I would like to thank my family for their immense support and faith in me throughout my learning stage. My friends have brought my confidence to a level that brings out the best in me. I am happy that God has blessed me with such wonderful people around me, without which this work might not have been as successful as it is today

Yanick Champoux is currently sailing the Big Data seas as a solutions architect. In his spare time, he hacks Perl, grows orchids, and writes comic books.

Cyril Ganchev is a system administrator, database administrator, and a software developer living in Sofia, Bulgaria. He received a master's degree in Computer Systems and Technologies from the Technical University of Sofia in 2005.

In 2002, he started working as a system administrator in an Internet Caf while studying at the Technical University of Sofia. In 2004, he began working as a software developer for the biggest Bulgarian IT company, Information Services Plc. He has been involved in many projects for the Bulgarian government, the Bulgarian National Bank, the National Revenue Agency, and others. He has been involved in several government elections in Bulgaria, writing the code that calculates the results.

Since 2012, he is working remotely for a Canadian company, Pythian. He started as an Oracle Database Administrator. In 2013, he transitioned to a newly formed team focused on Big Data and NoSQL.

Cyril Ganchev is an Oracle Advanced PL/SQL Developer Certified Professional and Oracle Database 11g Administrator Certified Associate.

I want to thank my parents for always supporting me, in all of my endeavors.

Alan Gardner is a solutions architect and developer specializing in designing Big Data systems. These systems incorporate technologies including Hadoop, Apache Kafka, and Storm, as well as Data Science techniques. Alan enjoys presenting his projects and shares his experience extensively at user groups and conferences. He also plays with functional programming and mobile and web development in his spare time.

Alan is also deeply involved in Ottawa's developer community, consulting with multiple organizations to help non-technical stakeholders organize developer events. With his group, Ottawa Drones, he runs hack days where developers can network, exchange ideas, and build their skills while programming flying robots.

I'd like to thank Paul White, Alex Gorbachev, and Mick Saunders for always helping me keep on the right path throughout different phases of my career, and Jasmin for always supporting me.