This document discusses building applications on Hadoop and introduces the Kite SDK. It provides an overview of Hadoop and its components like HDFS and MapReduce. It then discusses that while Hadoop is powerful and flexible, it can be complex and low-level, making application development challenging. The Kite SDK aims to address this by providing higher-level APIs and abstractions to simplify common use cases and allow developers to focus on business logic rather than infrastructure details. It includes modules for data, ETL processing with Morphlines, and tools for working with datasets and jobs. The SDK is open source and supports modular adoption.