About the Author

Nishant Garg has over 14 years of experience in software architecture and development in various technologies such as Java, Java Enterprise Edition, SOA, Spring, Hibernate, Hadoop, Hive, Flume, Sqoop, Oozie, Spark, Shark, YARN, Impala, Kafka, Storm, Solr/Lucene, and NoSQL databases including HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB, and MPP Databases such as GreenPlum.

He received his MS degree in Software Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, and is currently working as a technical architect in Big Data R&D Group in Impetus Infotech Pvt. Ltd.

Nishant, in his previous experience, has enjoyed working with the most recognizable names in IT services and financial industries, employing full software life cycle methodologies such as Agile and Scrum. He has also undertaken many speaking engagements on Big Data Technologies and is also the author of Apache Kafka, Packt Publishing.

I would like to thank my parents, Shri. Vishnu Murti Garg and Smt. Vimla Garg, for their continuous encouragement and motivation throughout my life. I would also like to say thanks to my wife, Himani, and my kids, Nitigya and Darsh, for their never-ending support, which keeps me going.

Finally, I would like to say thanks to Vineet Tyagi, head of Innovation Labs, Impetus Technologies, and Dr. Vijay, Director of Technology, Innovation Labs, Impetus Technologies, for having faith in me and giving me an opportunity to write.