About the Reviewers
Subash D'Souza is a professional software developer with strong expertise in crunching big data using Hadoop/HBase with Hive/Pig. He has worked with Perl/PHP/Python, primarily for coding and MySQL/Oracle as the backend, for several years prior to moving into Hadoop fulltime. He has worked on scaling for load, code development, and optimization for speed. He also has experience optimizing SQL queries for database interactions. His specialties include Hadoop, HBase, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Flume, Oozie, Scaling, Web Data Mining, PHP, Perl, Python, Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL Replication/Clustering.
Stefan Will is a computer scientist with a degree in machine learning and pattern recognition from the University of Bonn. For over a decade has worked for several startup companies in Silicon Valley and Raleigh, North Carolina, in the area of search and analytics. Presently, he leads the development of the search backend and the Hadoop-based product analytics platform at Zendesk, the customer service software provider.
