About the Author

Sandeep Yarabarla is a professional software engineer working for Verizon Labs, based out of Palo Alto, CA. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University, he has worked on several big data technologies for a spectrum of companies. He has developed applications primarily in Java and Go.

His experience includes handling large amounts of unstructured and structured data in Hadoop, and developing data processing applications using Spark and MapReduce. Right now, he is working with some cutting-edge technologies such as Cassandra, Kafka, Mesos, and Docker to build fault-tolerant and highly scalable applications.

I would like to thank my mom and dad for their love and support throughout my career. I would also like to thank  my relatives and friends for their help during various stages of my life. Lastly, I would like to thank Packt for giving me this opportunity to write this book and all the staff involved who helped me with the book's completion.