Excellent gathering at the Hadoop Meetup this past Tuesday. Two good speakers: Tom White and Aaron Cordova. Tom presented some interesting possible additions to Hadoop (8 things missing he would like to see in Hadoop). Aaron presented ideas on how to use HBase for distributed single NameNode. I am new to Hadoop myself, but got a lot out of this meeting.
Tom is the author of “Hadoop: The Definitive Guide“. I have ordered the book, have not received it yet, but as I hear, it is one of a couple of good books on Hadoop.
My mind map notes from the meeting (obviously incomplete and inaccurate) are here. If there is another Hadoop meetup in DC, I am very likely to attend.