Posts

Showing posts from March, 2015

Map Reduce Explained

Image
In this post, I'm going to write about Map Reduce Algorithm.  Map Reduce has taken the computing world by storm in recent years. It's massive scalability has given an edge to solving complicated problems. Map Reduce is often explained by the famous counting example (word count more often than not). I would also take the same route, albeit, a different example., let us count the number of books with the same name. Example: Suppose, there are 3 book shelves and each of them have different books. For brevity, let us say there are 4 different books in each of these shelves. First Shelf: "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (count: 3) "The Da Vinci Code" (count: 1) "Think and Grow Rich" (count: 2) "The Bridges of Madison County" (count: 2) Second Shelf: "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (count: 2) "The Da Vinci Code" (count: 2) "Think and Grow Rich" (count: 3) "The Bridges