I have fulfilled a father’s duty in explaining Big Data to my six-year-old. Even so, I sensed a visible dissatisfaction with the answer.
I wasn’t sure of the reason. Either I upset my child breaking down its favorite LEGO set or my interpretation wasn’t educative enough. Anyway, I had to come up with another plan.
My child has no doubt grasped one thing or two about Big Data, but Big Data is more than that. I recalled my journey on becoming a big data engineer. I thought of how I perceived each of its core concepts in the first place. The word MapReduce popped into my head.
At the dawn of my career path, Hadoop MapReduce was the first key idea I’ve encountered. It helped me to pick up the notion of how to leverage the common operations to perform massive calculations on Big Data.

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