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IT's Next Hot Job: Hadoop Guru
gManZboy writes "JPMorgan Chase and other companies at this year's Hadoop World conference came begging for job applicants: They say they can't find enough IT pros with certain skills, including Hadoop MapReduce. That spells high pay. As for Hadoop's staying power as a career path (a la SQL 30 years ago), IBM, Microsoft and Oracle have all embraced Hadoop this year. Maybe the best news of all: 'Intelligent technologists will pick up Hadoop very quickly.'"
The trick is going to be getting the appropriate experience without having learned it on the job already.
Yes, it can be done. However, this technology is geared towards environments with lots of nodes in big clusters. (which can run Linux) That's not the same as simply learning a language.
I got a job utilizing a "Big Data" database technology by being at the right place at the right time, when this technology was being rolled out. It's also hard to find people with that specialized experience.
So I would suggest to companies, hire people and train them. Just get quality people if you can't find someone with the specific skill set.
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Hadoop is geat, fast, and easy to use!*
*Statements are based on word count example and terrasort. Performance may vary greatly. May need to spend significant amounts of time to tune cluster for your particular data and applications to see any real performance. Applications may need to be specially designed to fit within the tuning constraints of the cluster. This statement does not apply if you are using binary data of significant size (BDOSS). Multiple data sets and apps may not perform equally well within the cluster. Data pre-processing, formatting, sequencing, and other such steps are not included in this statement. If you any problems, hope to $DIETY Google returns a hit. See your browser search bar for further details.
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