Chalkiopoulos Antonios Chalkiopoulos 
Programming MapReduce with Scalding [EPUB ebook] 

This book is an easy-to-understand, practical guide to designing, testing, and implementing complex Map Reduce applications in Scala using the Scalding framework. It is packed with examples featuring log-processing, ad-targeting, and machine learning. This book is for developers who are willing to discover how to effectively develop Map Reduce applications. Prior knowledge of Hadoop or Scala is not required; however, investing some time on those topics would certainly be beneficial.