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Movie Recommendations and More via MapReduce and Scalding

Edwin Chen

Scalding is an in-house MapReduce framework that Twitter recently open-sourced. Like Pig , it provides an abstraction on top of MapReduce that makes it easy to write big data jobs in a syntax that’s simple and concise. Unlike Pig, Scalding is written in pure Scala – which means all the power of Scala and the JVM is already built-in. No more UDFs, folks!