Why MapReduce is Simple
Mathias Meyer:
I’m almost 100% certain you use MapReduce every day. If not daily, then at least once a week. Whenever you have a list of items that you loop or iterate over and transform into something else one by one, if only to extract a single attribute, there’s your map function.
Explaining MapReduce using simple functions.
Original title and link: Why MapReduce is Simple (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
via: http://blog.basho.com/2011/03/30/why-mapreduce-is-easy/