Ask HN - books/resources on distributed computing?

3 pointsvijayr2 comments

For a total beginner like me, what tool should I start with? Hadoop?

I know Java (though its been a while since I programmed in it). Any recommendations on books/resources?

I have no opinion about what tool you should use.

As for resources-- I started reading "Hadoop the Definitive Guide" and found it a fairly typical O'Reilly offering, that is to say, well-organized and pretty straightforward. However, I didn't get very far in (I stopped reading it when I realized it was distracting me from things I really needed to be doing).

If you're interested, I can snail-mail it to you. Email my username at lbl.gov.

If you have an ACM subscription, or know someone who does, they have a techpack on parallel computing. The tech packs are a collection of annotated bibliographies on a particular topic.

http://techpack.acm.org/

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