Hadoop Real World Solutions Cookbook
Jonathan R. OwensJonathan R. Owens has a background in Java and C++, and has worked in both the private and public sectors as a software engineer. Most recently, he has been working with Hadoop, and related distributing processing technologies.Currently, Jonathan R. Owens works for comScore, Inc, a widely regarded digital measurement and analytics company. At comScore, he is a member of the core-processing team, which uses Hadoop and other custom distributed systems to aggregate, analyze, and manage over 40+ billion transactions per day.Brian FemianoBrian Femiano has a B.S in Computer Science and has been programming professionally for over 6 years, the last 2 of which have been spent building advanced analytics and big data capabilities using Apache Hadoop. He has worked for the commercial sector in the past, but the majority of his experience comes from the government contracting space. He currently works for Potomac Fusion in the DC/Virginia area, where they develop scalable algorithms to study and enhance some of the most advanced and complex datasets in the government space. Within Potomac Fusion, he has taught courses and training sessions to help teach Apache Hadoop and related cloud-scale technology.Jon LentzJon Lentz is a software engineer on the Core Processing team at comScore, an online audience measurement and analytics company. He prefers to do most of his coding in Pig. Before working at comScore he wrote software to optimize supply chains and to allocate fixed income securities.