There are many challenges in setting up and scaling distributed frameworks like hadoop.Despite, Hadoop being an Open Source product and with so many good documentations and books, it is difficult for an individual or an enterprise to define various use cases or working models, that too with a clear understanding of its workings and tuning it for optimal performance.Pro Hadoop Administration by Gurmukh Singh, a Hadoop specialist and an infrastructure architect, takes a deep dive into configuring Hadoop services and its integration with various tools or frameworks. The book covers the processes right from scratch to building a Hadoop cluster at the production level, with best practices and optimal performance.You will learn: - Use Cases and set of recipes for the Hadoop production environment. From Compiling Hadoop to setting up Cluster with Highly available services. It’s integration with various tools like Sqoop, Flume, HBase, Hive and many more. Performance tuning and Cluster Planning. Hadoop security like Kerberos, Encryption and other aspects of security like OS and Network Level.

Gurmukh has over 12 years of experience in Infrastructure design, scalability, performance tuning and distributed Computing. He recently, Co-Founded "Netxillon Technologies", which is into BigData Consultancy services and trainings. Prior to starting his venture, he worked with companies like Yahoo, HP, JP Morgan on various technologies like OpenVMS, Yahoo Web Analytics platform and many network and security appliances. His areas of expertise include Scalability and Performance Engineering, Databases, Optimising Hadoop Infrastructure, Proxy Appliances and Automation. In addition to this he mentors and trains engineers on latest technologies and market trends.