On Mar 2, 2012, at 4:09 PM, Harsh J wrote: > Since you ask about anything in general, when I forayed into using > Hadoop, my biggest pain was lack of documentation clarity and > completeness over the MR and DFS user APIs (and other little points). > > It would be nice to have some work done to have one example or > semi-example for every single Input/OutputFormat, Mapper/Reducer > implementations, etc. added to the javadocs. > > I believe examples and snippets help out a ton (tons more than > explaining just behavior) to new devs.
Good points Harsh. Would you like to contribute some documentation patches? > > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Kunaal <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am doing a general poll on what are the most prevalent pain points that >> people run into with Hadoop? These could be performance related (memory >> usage, IO latencies), usage related or anything really. >> >> The goal is to look for what areas this platform could benefit the most in >> the near future. >> >> Any feedback is much appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> Kunal. > > > > -- > Harsh J -- Arun C. Murthy Hortonworks Inc. http://hortonworks.com/
