They say that it is not the destination but the journey that got you there that matters. When you have completed this learning path, concepts such as how parallelism is performed on a cluster will be second nature. Your awareness of how to program, either using high-level or low-level languages will be highlights along the way. This learning path incorporates MapReduce and YARN, an introduction to Apache Pig, and simplifying data pipelines with Apache Kafka. Come along and start your journey to receiving the following badges: Hadoop Programming – Level 1 and Hadoop Programming – Level 2.