“…Gain experience with three high value skill sets: Hadoop, AWS, and EMR Save time and money by learning about the undocumented "gotchas" of AWS and EMR See how the experts provision EMR clusters and connect to them via SSH and web UIs Learn to import data into a cluster and to access external data stored on Amazon's S3 Explore three different ways to query data using Hive and Pig Discover the Tez engine and see how it accelerates Hive and Pig queries Learn how to schedule workflows using Oozie Frank Kane spent 9 years at Amazon and IMDb developing and managing the technology that delivers product recommendations to hundreds of millions of customers. …”

“…"In 'China after Mao', award-winning historian Frank Dikötter explores how the People's Republic of China was transformed from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today. …”

“…Learn to provision an ES domain, secure it, and spin up an Elasticsearch cluster Understand how to import static data using a REST API Discover how to import streaming data with Amazon's Lambda service or with Logstash Explore ways to search data using REST and analyze data using Kibana Frank Kane spent almost a decade at Amazon and IMDb developing and managing the personalization technology that delivers product recommendations to hundreds of millions of customers. …”

“…Unique insights to implement big data analytics and reap big returns to your bottom line Focusing on the business and financial value of big data analytics, respected technology journalist Frank J. Ohlhorst shares his insights on the newly emerging field of big data analytics in Big Data Analytics. …”

“…This is a hands-on course where Amazon Web Services pro Frank Kane shows you how to rent Amazon's Elastic MapReduce service (EMR) at minimal cost and use it to run Spark scripts on top of a real Hadoop cluster. …”

“…Other essays in the collection, about the diaries of Harry Kessler and Anne Frank, the bombing of German cities, Japan's kamikaze pilots further explore these themes. …”