About the Reviewers

Skanda Bhargav is an engineering graduate from Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belgaum in Karnataka, India. He did his majors in Computer Science Engineering. He is currently employed with Happiest Minds Technologies, a MNC based out of Bangalore. He is a Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop. His interests are Big Data and Hadoop.

He has been a reviewer for the following books:

• Instant MapReduce Patterns – Hadoop Essentials How-to, Srinath Perera, Packt Publishing
• Hadoop Cluster Deployment, Danil Zburivsky, Packt Publishing

He has also reviewed Building Hadoop Clusters [Video], Sean Mikha, Packt Publishing.

I would like to thank my family for their immense support and faith in me throughout my learning stage. My friends have brought the confidence in me to a level that makes me bring out the best out of myself. I am happy that God has blessed me with such wonderful people around me, without which this work might not have been the success that it is today.

Brandon Forehand started programming at an early age and loves solving problems. He is a Cloudera Certified Apache Hadoop Developer and currently works at Moz as a principal software engineer on the Big Data team, developing systems to index links on the web and providing data to help online marketers improve their websites' visibility. Previously, he worked at Amazon on Kindle and developed software to convert physical books to e-books. He has also worked at a research laboratory, developing sonar systems for the Navy. He earned a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Texas, Austin.

I would like to thank my wife for putting up with me all of these years and the countless people who have helped me along the way in my career.

Mike Hordila has worked with very large databases and high availability systems for more than 20 years. He consults for major organizations, always looking for new ways and technologies. He has shared some of his experience in a number of articles in major Oracle magazines and also in a couple of books.