You won't need too much hardware to set up Hadoop. The minimum setup is a single machine / virtual machine, and the recommended setup is three machines.

It is better to have some hands-on experience of writing and running basic programs in Java, as well as some experience of using developer tools such as Eclipse.

Some understanding of the standard software development life cycle would be a plus.

As this is a quick-start guide, it does not provide complete coverage of all topics. Therefore, you will find links provided throughout the book o take you to the deep-dive of the given topic.

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CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "You will need the hadoop-client-<version>.jar file to be added".

A block of code is set as follows:

    <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
             <artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
             <version>3.1.0</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

<!-- Put site-specific property overrides in this file. --><configuration>
        <property>
                <name>fs.default.name</name>
                <value>hdfs://<master-host>:9000</value>
        </property>
</configuration>

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

hrishikesh@base0:/$ df -m

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Right-click on the project and run Maven install, as shown in the following screenshot".