About the Author

Jagat Jasjit Singh works for one of the largest telecom companies in Melbourne, Australia, as a big data architect. He has a total experience of over 10 years and has been working with the Hadoop ecosystem for more than 5 years. He is skilled in Hadoop, Spark, Oozie, Hive, Pig, Scala, machine learning, HBase, Falcon, Kakfa, GraphX, Flume, Knox, Sqoop, Mesos, Marathon, Chronos, Openstack, and Java. He has experience of a variety of Australian and European customer implementations. He actively writes on Big Data and IoT technologies on his personal blog (http://jugnu.life). Jugnu (a Punjabi word) is a firefly that glows at night and illuminates the world with its tiny light. Jagat believes in this same philosophy of sharing knowledge to make the world a better place. You can connect with him on LinkedIn at https://au.linkedin.com/in/jagatsingh.

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This book is dedicated to Almighty God, who gave me everything, my parents, and the wonderful people from the Omnia project at Commonwealth Bank of Australia (https://github.com/CommBank). I would like to acknowledge the help of Tushar Gupta, Dhiraj Chandanshive, Roshni Banerjee, and Preeti Singh from Packt Publishing in writing this book.