Practice - Mapper Function Signature
Practice Questions
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What is the primary role of the Mapper function in MapReduce?
💡 Hint: Think about the MapReduce workflow.
Define what an intermediate key-value pair is.
💡 Hint: Consider it as an output of the Mapper.
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Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What is the output of the Mapper function?
💡 Hint: Consider what data gets passed to the Reducer.
True or False: A pure function in MapReduce can have side effects that affect other tasks.
💡 Hint: Think about how tasks communicate.
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Challenge Problems
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Consider a dataset of lines of text. Design a Mapper function that counts occurrences of each character in the text, specifying how the output would be structured.
💡 Hint: Remember to think about both the input and expected outputs.
How would you modify a standard Mapper function if the input data was very large? What optimizations could you implement?
💡 Hint: Think about how Mappers can break down tasks for efficiency.
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