Hadoop Guide for Beginners

Post:
A Beginners Guide to Hadoop
URL: http://blog.matthewrathbone.com/2013/04/17/what-is-hadoop.html

System Design:

Google File System http://research.google.com/archive/gfs.html

Google Bigtable http://research.google.com/archive/bigtable.html

Google MapReduce http://research.google.com/archive/mapreduce.html