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Recently, I got a chance to read the 'Instant MapReduce Patterns - Hadoop Essentials How-to' by Dr Srinath Perera . (thanks to  Packetpub  who offered me a free e-book for this). I found this book, a pretty handy book for anybody who wants to get started with MapReduce with Hadoop. In fact, we can find many Map Reduce books which we have a lot of theories and very abstract use cases, but the gap that this book tries to give the readers a complete end-to-end experience on how to program with MapReduce.  When you are solving a problem with MapReduce/Hadoop, you often find that just knowing some HelloWorld type of examples won't be enough and you hardly find resource on how to solve different types of MapReduce problems using Hadoop. This book address that requirement and provide a concise introduction to solving different types of problems using MapReduce. Book is available for purchase at : http://www.packtpub.com/mapreduce-patterns-hadoop-essentials/book Here I have summa...

WSO2 has just release the latest version of Enterprise Service Bus,  WSO2 ESB 4.7.0 . This is the first major release of WSO2 ESB after the 4.6.0  release which purely contained the major  performance enhancements . As a member of WSO2 ESB team, I would like to discuss some of the key aspect of 4.7.0 release which will be helpful for all the integration geeks and all of the existing users of WSO2 ESB . Comprehensive RESTful Integration  With the heavy adaptation of RESTful APIs all over the world any integration platform should offer a solid foundation to integrate RESTful services. WSO2 ESB initially came up with the REST API implementation, which is a robust and a clean way to expose REST APIs via ESB. This feature was extensively used in many integration scenarios and WSO2 API Manager  successfully leverage this functionality in its API Gateway.      REST Triangle There are three main concepts that we need to understand in REST(Representation...