Sridhar Alla is a big data expert helping companies solve complex problems in distributed computing, large scale data science and analytics practice. He presents regularly at several prestigious conferences and provides training and consulting to companies. He holds a bachelor's in computer science from JNTU, India.
He loves writing code in Python, Scala, and Java. He also has extensive hands-on knowledge of several Hadoop-based technologies, TensorFlow, NoSQL, IoT, and deep learning.
I thank my loving wife, Rosie Sarkaria for all the love and patience during the many months I spent writing this book. I thank my parents Ravi and Lakshmi Alla for all the support and encouragement. I am very grateful to my wonderful niece Niharika and nephew Suman Kalyan who helped me with screenshots, proof reading and testing the code snippets.
V. Naresh Kumar has more than a decade of professional experience in designing, implementing, and running very large-scale internet applications in Fortune 500 Companies. He is a full-stack architect with hands-on experience in e-commerce, web hosting, healthcare, big data, analytics, data streaming, advertising, and databases. He admires open source and contributes to it actively. He keeps himself updated with emerging technologies, from Linux system internals to frontend technologies. He studied in BITS- Pilani, Rajasthan, with a joint degree in computer science and economics.
Manoj R. Patil is a big data architect at TatvaSoft—an IT services and consulting firm. He has a bachelor's degree in engineering from COEP, Pune. He is a proven and highly skilled business intelligence professional with 18 years, experience in IT. He is a seasoned BI and big data consultant with exposure to all the leading platforms.
Previously, he worked for numerous organizations, including Tech Mahindra and Persistent Systems. Apart from authoring a book on Pentaho and big data, he has been an avid reviewer of various titles in the respective fields from Packt and other leading publishers.
Manoj would like to thank his entire family, especially his two beautiful angels, Ayushee and Ananyaa for understanding during the review process. He would also like to thank Packt for giving this opportunity, the project co-ordinator and the author.
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