Who this book is for

This book is for experienced developers who are already familiar with Pig and are looking forward to referring to a use case standpoint that they can relate to the problems of ingestion, profiling, cleansing, transformation, and egress of data encountered in the enterprises. These power users of Pig will use the book as a reference for understanding the significance of Pig design patterns to solve their problems.

Knowledge of Hadoop and Pig is mandatory for you to grasp the intricacies of Pig design patterns better. To address this, Chapter 1, Setting the Context for Design Patterns in Pig, contains introductory concepts with simple examples. It is recommended that readers be familiar with Java and Python in order to better comprehend the UDFs that are used as examples in many chapters.