the best place to start is the MapReduce paper by Jeff Dean ...and try googling a talk by google's Aron on MapReduce
momina On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Neo Anderson <javadeveloper...@yahoo.co.uk>wrote: > Hi > > I am interested in distributed computing and would like to learn core > concept e.g. MapReduce. However, I am new to Hadoop. So I get a question - > is there any simple task (e.g. jira issue) that would be good for a beginner > to start with? > > I appreciate any suggestion. > > Thank you very much. > > > >