Google: MapReduce in a Week

This page contains a comprehensive introduction to MapReduce including lectures, reading material, and programming assignments. The goal is to provide a set of lectures which can be integrated into an existing systems courses such as Operating Systems, Networking, etc, which already are taking an "under the hood" approach to computer science. Prerequisite knowledge includes Multithreading, Synchronization, locks, semaphores, barriers, etc, and sockets.

Lectures and Reading Material

• Introduction to Parallel Programming
• MapReduce OSDI'04 Paper
• Lecture 1 - Parallelization Models
• Lecture 2 - Remote Procedure Calls (RPC)
• Lecture 3 - MapReduce

Exercises

• Functional Programming Warm-up
• MapReduce and Distributed Systems Reading Questions
• Hadoop Code Lab