Mahmoud Parsian, Ph.D. in Computer Science, is a practicingsoftware professional with 30 years of experience as a developer, designer, architect, and author. For the past 15 years, he hasbeen involved in Java server-side, databases, MapReduce, anddistributed computing. Dr. Parsian currently leads Illumina'sBig Data team, which is focused on large-scale genome analyticsand distributed computing. He leads and develops scalableregression algorithms; DNA sequencing and RNA sequencing pipelinesusing Java, MapReduce, Hadoop, HBase, and Spark; and open sourcetools. He is also the author of JDBC Recip...