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How do you keep data flowing and scale?
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Infrastructure in the world of big
data allows the data to keep flowing.
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And also allows the systems that we
have discussed to run at scale and
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on large data sets.
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The fundamental unit in
big data infrastructure is
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often a cluster of machines.
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Now typically, this is a group
of networked Linux servers.
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Managing clusters of machines
is a non-trivial task.
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You can't just write your own
homegrown software to manage
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all the servers you have available.
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You need to have the ability to run your
processing code across the cluster and
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then gather the results to
display them to the client.
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