About the reviewer

Dayong Du has led a career dedicated to enterprise data and analytics for more than 10 years, especially on enterprise use cases with open source big data technology, such as Hadoop, Hive, HBase, and Spark. Dayong is a big data practitioner, as well as an author and coach. He has published the first and second editions of Apache Hive Essential and has coached lots of people who are interested in learning about and using big data technology. In addition, he is a seasonal blogger, contributor, and adviser for big data start-ups, and a co-founder of the Toronto Big Data Professionals Association.