Posts Tagged ‘Google

MapReduce is one of “those” buzz words that is going around at the moment. Mostly in part due to Google using it so successfully for their distributed indexing algorithms. So what is MapReduce? According to Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce] So MapReduce is an amalgamation of two higher order functions taken from functional programming. Map and Reduce :. […]


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Justin is a Senior Software Engineer living in Brisbane. A Polyglot Developer proficient in multiple programming languages including [C#, C/C++, Java, Android, Ruby..]. He's currently taking an active interest in Teaching Kids to Code, Functional Programming, Robotics, 3D Printers, RC Quad-Copters and Augmented Reality.

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