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Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5 Expert Cookbook

You're reading from   Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5 Expert Cookbook Over 30 recipes to successfully mix the powerful capabilities of Visual Studio 2013 with .NET 4.5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849689724
Length 308 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abhishek Sur Abhishek Sur
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Preface 1. A Guide to Debugging with Visual Studio FREE CHAPTER 2. Enhancements to WCF 4.5 3. Building a Touch-sensitive Device Application Using Windows Phone 8 4. Working with Team Foundation Server 5. Testing Applications Using Visual Studio 2013 6. Extending the Visual Studio IDE 7. Understanding Cloud Computing with Windows Azure Index

Working with HDInsight (Hadoop) for Big Data processing


SQL Azure provides a relational database technology to the Windows Azure platform. However, sometimes the data becomes so vast that it could not be handled using a relational database. Even sometimes, the data that needs to be analyzed is not relational at all. Hadoop is a new technology that has been introduced recently to help in analyzing Big Data problems.

Hadoop is an Apache-based open source project. This technology stores data in Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and then lets the developers create MapReduce jobs to analyze that data. The main advantages of a Hadoop filesystem is that it stores data in multiple servers, and then allows to run chunks of MapReduce jobs, letting Big Data be processed in parallel.

HDInsight is the name of the Windows Azure Apache Hadoop-based service. HDInsight lets HDFS to store data in clusters and distribute it across multiple virtual machines. It also spreads the MapReduce job across VMs....

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