Hello all, I wanted to let you know that "Programming Hive" from O'Reilly is now available!
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023555.do I could not have said enough in the dedication about how absolutely awesome Hive and Hadoop are! It is a great joy to work with hive and to get to write the book. One of the things I love about the book is that it had three authors, five case studies, and two entire sections written by others. This is much like the code base itself, which has a number of major contributions by a number of people and organizations. There is a long run down of people to thank for both the great work in hive as well as those who supported my involvement. I hope the book does all your great work justice! Thank you, Edward