Nick Dimiduk

NICK DIMIDUK stumbled into HBase in 2008 when his nightly ETL jobs started taking 20+ hours to complete. Since then, he has applied Hadoop and HBase to projects in social media, social gaming, click-stream analysis, climatology, and geographic data. Nick also helped establish Seattle’s Scalability Meetup and tried his hand at entrepreneurship. His current passion is distributed, scalable, online access to scientific data.

books by Nick Dimiduk

HBase in Action

  • November 2012
  • ISBN 9781617290527
  • 360 pages
  • printed in black & white

HBase in Action is an experience-driven guide that shows you how to design, build, and run applications using HBase. First, it introduces you to the fundamentals of handling big data. Then, you'll explore HBase with the help of real applications and code samples and with just enough theory to back up the practical techniques. You'll take advantage of the MapReduce processing framework and benefit from seeing HBase best practices in action.