Where do I start with distributed computing?

Question

I\'m interested in learning techniques for distributed computing. As a Java developer, I\'m probably willing to start with Hadoop. Could you please recommend some books/tutorial

Answer 1

Currently, bookwise I would check out - Hadoop A Definitive Guide. Its written by Tom White who has worked on Hadoop for a good while now, and works at Cloudera with Doug Cutting (Hadoop creator).

Also on the free side, Jimmy Lin from UMD has written a book called: Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce. Here's a link to the final pre-production verison (link provided by the author on his website).