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Disclosure: I received a review copy of this title from O’Reilly This set is without doubt my favorite set of O’Reilly videos to date. If you’ve read my earlier reviews you’ll know that I’m a big fan of O’Reilly’s videos and conferences. What differentiates this set is that combines the usual diversity of topics from a good tech conference with numerous deep dives - groups of videos with 4 or 5 titles in the set that dig deeper into a specific subject.  As with previous O'Reilly content that I have reviewed, the production quality of this set is amazing. Video is high definition, sound is crystal clear and, while not cheap, at a whopping 107 hours the set is very reasonably priced at $400. So far some of my favorite talks have been:   An Introduction to Hadoop – Mark Fei This talk demonstrates everything that is great about this conference and video set. In this 4 part introduction to Hadoop Mark Fei does a great job of introducing MapReduce, core Hadoop and hdfs and provi