SHOULD I SWITCH MY CAREER FROM JAVA TO HADOOP?

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SHOULD I SWITCH MY CAREER FROM JAVA TO HADOOP?
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Every once a while, you get that feeling in your
gut that your career has come to a standstill and
is making no further gateway. Your professional
career has reached a dead-end, and there is
nothing new or fresh to dedicate your mind to
learning it. Now if you are a Java Developer or
someone who is engaged in providing java web
application development services, this article is
a must read for you as this article focuses on
why you should make a switch from being a Java
developer to being a Hadoop Consultant. Java was
a very amazing career to foray into up until a
few years back when the entire IT sector had
reached its zenith. However, like it is with
technology, Java became outdated, and new
technology has become the talk of the town which
is Hadoop. In this article, I shall offer reasons
as to why you being a Java Developer should
switch over and become someone who offers Hadoop
Consulting Services or is a Hadoop Consultant.
1. HADOOP DEVELOPERS ARE IN MORE DEMAND THAN JAVA
DEVELOPERS Almost everyone in the IT Industry
today is acquainted or knows about Java. However
the same cannot be said about Hadoop Developers.
Since it is an up and coming technological marvel,
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• there are not many developers who can make a
  claim about being knowledgeable about Java.
  Furthermore, when you become a Hadoop or a Big
  Data developer and also learn about Big Data
  Analytics along the way, it makes you stand out
  among the crowd.
• JAVA DEVELOPERS have the edge over OTHER
  PROFESSIONALS IN LEARNING HADOOP
• A developer who usually codes in Java will find
  it much easier for himself to learn about Hadoop
  and also he would be able to understand the finer
  aspects of a specific module which the other
  professionals would face trouble over. For
  example, High-Level Abstractions like Hive and
  Pig are provided in the Apache Frameworks. Now
  HiveQL and Pig Latin are usually used for
  programming in Hive and Pig respectively, and in
  the end in Java, both of them are reduced and
  transformed into MapReduce applications. Now
  although Developers do have the option to use
  streaming to reduce the functions and write the
  map in a language of their choice, there are
  certain advanced features present in Hadoop that
  can be used only via a Java API which in turn
  directly gives Java Developers an edge over the
  other developers who do not know Java. Hence the
  reason for the golden term being quoted in the IT
  industry that Java is a necessary language to
  know for learning Big Data/Hadoop.
• SKILL GAP AND HIGH WAGES
• The organizations and companies are searching for
  developers with knowledge of Big Data and ready
  to compensate these developers very well. And
  since the introduction of Hadoop, almost every
  major company has switched over to Hadoop, and
  thus there is a gap in demand and supply. There
  is a demand for Hadoop Developers in the market,
  and there is a dearth of Hadoop Developers in
  the market. The dearth and the payment for Hadoop
  developers is such that even developers from
  other fields who are not proficient with either
  Java or Hadoop are also making an effort to
  learn the language and take advantage of this
  unique opportunity
• STAYING AHEAD IN THE MARKET
• These days IT experts are exceptionally wary
  about the present economic situations they are
  moving from the more prevalent and outdated
  technology like Java to the most recent
  technologies like Hadoop to remain in the
  challenge. Even freshers are likewise mindful of
  the market as opposed to beginning the
  profession in outdated technologies, they rather
  incline toward the most recent and up and coming
  field like Big Data and Hadoop, to begin with.
• LAYOFFS
• In the IT world, layoffs are extremely
  commonplace. Thus if you as a developer have not
  made an effort to learn something new like Big
  Data and many more related to big data, there is a

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high chance that you are on the layoff radar of
the Company. A company is always on the lookout
for shifting to newer technologies that have the
potential of changing the technological world,
and they wish to earn a good profit from riding
this wave of technological change. However, if
you as a developer are not aware of any new
changes in the IT field, then you become a
liability that is holding the company back from
shifting to these newer technologies, and that
is the time you will be laid off. CONCLUSION Java
has already become an outdated technology in the
market and as such you being a Java Developer
will find it harder and harder in the coming
years to find a project which utilizes Java.
Thus it is recommended that you make a move to
switch over to Hadoop considering that learning
Hadoop will be much easier for you being a Java
Developer. Otherwise, you would be looking at
being laid off very soon enough. Reference-https
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