Enterprise Data Workflows with Cascading

Preface;
Requirements;
Enterprise Data Workflows;
Complexity, More So Than Bigness;
Origins of the Cascading API;
Using Code Examples;
Safari® Books Online;
How to Contact Us;
Kudos;
Chapter 1: Getting Started;
1.1 Programming Environment Setup;
1.2 Example 1: Simplest Possible App in Cascading;
1.3 Build and Run;
1.4 Cascading Taxonomy;
1.5 Example 2: The Ubiquitous Word Count;
1.6 Flow Diagrams;
1.7 Predictability at Scale;
Chapter 2: Extending Pipe Assemblies;
2.1 Example 3: Customized Operations;
2.2 Scrubbing Tokens;
2.3 Example 4: Replicated Joins;
2.4 Stop Words and Replicated Joins;
2.5 Comparing with Apache Pig;
2.6 Comparing with Apache Hive;
Chapter 3: Test-Driven Development;
3.1 Example 5: TF-IDF Implementation;
3.2 Example 6: TF-IDF with Testing;
3.3 A Word or Two About Testing;
Chapter 4: Scalding—A Scala DSL for Cascading;
4.1 Why Use Scalding?;
4.2 Getting Started with Scalding;
4.3 Example 3 in Scalding: Word Count with Customized Operations;
4.4 A Word or Two about Functional Programming;
4.5 Example 4 in Scalding: Replicated Joins;
4.6 Build Scalding Apps with Gradle;
4.7 Running on Amazon AWS;
Chapter 5: Cascalog—A Clojure DSL for Cascading;
5.1 Why Use Cascalog?;
5.2 Getting Started with Cascalog;
5.3 Example 1 in Cascalog: Simplest Possible App;
5.4 Example 4 in Cascalog: Replicated Joins;
5.5 Example 6 in Cascalog: TF-IDF with Testing;
5.6 Cascalog Technology and Uses;
Chapter 6: Beyond MapReduce;
6.1 Applications and Organizations;
6.2 Lingual, a DSL for ANSI SQL;
6.3 Pattern, a DSL for Predictive Model Markup Language;
Chapter 7: The Workflow Abstraction;
7.1 Key Insights;
7.2 Pattern Language;
7.3 Literate Programming;
7.4 Separation of Concerns;
7.5 Functional Relational Programming;
7.6 Enterprise vs. Start-Ups;
Chapter 8: Case Study: City of Palo Alto Open Data;
8.1 Why Open Data?;
8.2 City of Palo Alto;
8.3 Moving from Raw Sources to Data Products;
8.4 Calibrating Metrics for the Recommender;
8.5 Spatial Indexing;
8.6 Personalization;
8.7 Recommendations;
8.8 Build and Run;
8.9 Key Points of the Recommender Workflow;
Troubleshooting Workflows;
Build and Runtime Problems;
Anti-Patterns;
Workflow Bottlenecks;
Other Resources;
Index;
Colophon;