I'd also recommend Lars George's excellent "HBase The Definitive Guide". It will give you a good conceptual foundation and an understanding of how the API works. Then when you are tracing code paths in the internals that act in service to the API, they will make more sense.
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:45 PM, S Ahmed <sahmed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was afraid you were going to say that :) > > Looking forward to the vidoes! > > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Ian Varley <ivar...@salesforce.com> wrote: > >> Well, the first answer is always the same: read the code! :) >> >> Of course, sometimes it's difficult to get the high level concepts quickly >> that way (even with good docs, like the HBase code generally has). So I'd >> recommend seeing the upcoming talk by committer Lars Hofhansl at HBaseCon >> on Tuesday--that's exactly what it's about! It's called "HBase Internals". >> >> If you're not attending, I'm sure they'll post slides (and maybe video?) >> afterwards. >> >> Ian >> >> On May 17, 2012, at 8:39 AM, S Ahmed wrote: >> >> > Greetings, >> > >> > Other than reading the the source code, google papers, seda, etc. how >> does >> > someone get solid understanding of the code base? >> > >> > Are there any high-level (or low level!) diagrams of sort that go over >> the >> > various components of hbase? (various read/write stages, gossip, etc.) >> > >> > I'm guessing this is wishful thinking but I thought I'd ask :) >> >> -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
