A 771 Words Description of Map Reduce
Can a skyscraper completed in 1931 be used to explain a parallel processing algorithm introduced in 2004? In this post, I use the anology of counting smartphones in the Empire State Building to explain MapReduce…without using code.
Andrew Brust’s metaphor is nice, but I wonder if these days there’s a single person coming even close to data that needs a 771 words description of how Map Reduce works.
Original title and link: A 771 Words Description of Map Reduce (©myNoSQL)
via: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/big-data/the-mapreduce-101-story-in-102-stories/190
