At the time of this book’s writing, MapReduce is moving quickly. New features and new systems are popping up every day and new users are out in droves. More importantly for the subject of MapReduce Design Patterns, a growing number of users brings along a growing number of experts. These experts are the ones that will drive the community’s documentation of design patterns not only by sharing new ones, but also by maturing the already existing ones.

In this chapter, we’ll discuss and speculate what the future holds for MapReduce design patterns. Where will they come from? What systems will benefit from design patterns? How will today’s design patterns change with the technology? What trends in data will affect the design patterns of today?