A long time ago, I called Google’s MapReduce distributed programming model, a force multiplier. Some, admittedly self-interested, parties are projecting a billion a year Hadoop industry. Some are just projecting that 2012 will be a big year for Hadoop. Given that Hadoop is the open source version of MapReduce, I might actually be on target with that prediction.
But enough self-congratulation. I found myself recently wondering what’s next on the MapReduce frontier. Should have known there’s an academic MapReduce workshop for that. Third edition no less.