Apache Mahout: Beyond MapReduce: Dmitriy Lyubimov, Andrew Palumbo: 9781523775781: Amazon.com: Books

It happens only seldom that one is able to keep in one's hands a new book depicting a pivotal moment in the development of computer software. I recall my first books on web services and then on Ajax. Such works are rather inspirational tour guides through exciting new ideas than encyclopedias or standard textbooks. This is also the case with "Apache Mahout: Beyond MapReduce" by D. Lyubimov and A.Palumbo. In 216 pages, this book packs in a crash course style introduction to analyzing distributed datasets using Mahout - a front-end to Apache Spark (a cluster computing framework) - steering through mathematical case studies with fully coded examples.