MapReduce: A Game-Changer in Big Data

Introduction In 2004, Google engineers Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat published a paper that would completely shake up how we think about data processing at scale. Their paper, "MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters," laid out a new way to tackle big data in a distributed system. Today, let's dig into what makes MapReduce so special and how it set the stage for the modern data…