Real Deal Concrete Hadoop Examples

If you think you have to be a java programmer to use Hadoop then you've been lied to. Hadoop is not hard. What makes learning hadoop (or more correctly, map reduce) tedious is the lack of concrete and useful examples. Word counts are f*ing boring. The next few posts will overview two of the most useful higher level abstractions on top of hadoop (Pig and Wukong) with copious examples.