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Define "massive". You can learn all the most important aspects of the APIs and programming model on a single machine, either by running in "local" (non-distribu
by teraflop 9y ago
Define "massive". You can learn all the most important aspects of the APIs and programming model on a single machine, either by running in "local" (non-distributed) mode or by running a few VMs to simulate a real cluster. And you can spin up a cluster of 100 machines on either AWS or GCE for about a dollar per hour.