Marcel Kornacker and Mostafa Mokhtar help simplify the process of making good SQL-on-Hadoop decisions and cover top performance optimizations for Apache Impala (incubating), from schema design and memory optimization to query tuning.

Justin Murray outlines the benefits of virtualizing Hadoop and Spark, covering the main architectural approaches at a technical level and demonstrating how the core Hadoop architecture maps into virtual machines and how those relate to physical servers. You'll gain a set of design approaches and best practices to make your application infrastructure fit well with the virtualization layer.