UNIX administration to Hadoop Administration
Friends, The most mind boggling question every UNIX admin has when he is looking forward to take up Hadoop administration --- " Do I need to know Java? , Is it mandatory to know Java for Hadoop administration? " Simple answer is 'NO'. It will be good to know Java, for that matter any knowledge is not a waste. But is it mandatory? NO it isn't . Knowing Java can just give you an upper hand to debug the user queries at time if they fail for some reason ( will discuss that in upcoming blogs) Brief background of my journey toward Hadoop. I started my IT career as UNIX System Engineer and use to work intensively on Solaris and Redhat, before I started working on Hadoop as admin / Architect. Trust me , system admin experience helps me at every corner. One needs to have better hold of platform in order to setup Hadoop clusters. Especially if you are working on apache Hadoop cluster or Hortonworks . The GUI or admin console for these variants are very b...