hot links
Save 25% on Hadoop Conference Tickets Apache Hadoop is a hot technology getting traction all over the enterprise and in the Web 2.0 world. Now, there's going to be a conference dedicated to learning more about Hadoop. It'll be Friday, October 2 at the Roosevelt
cloud computing
The modern datacenter is evolving into the network centric datacenter model, which is applied to both public and private cloud computing. In this model, networking, platform, storage, and software infrastructure are provided as services that scale up or down on demand. The network centric model allows the datacenter to be
Paper
We've seen a lot of NoSQL action lately built around distributed hash tables. Btrees are getting jealous. Btrees, once the king of the database world, want their throne back. Paul Buchheit surfaced a paper: A practical scalable distributed B-tree by Marcos K. Aguilera and Wojciech Golab, that might
General Discussion
I want to know how is Berkeley DB compared against other key-value solution. I read it from Net that Google uses it for their Enterprise Sign-on feature. Is anyone has any experience using Berkeley DB. Backward compatibility is poor in Berkley DB but that is fine for me. How easy
Strategy
A user named Apathy on how Reddit scales some of their features, shares some advice he learned while working at Google and other major companies. To be fair, I [Apathy] was working at Google at the time, and every job I held between 1995 and 2005 involved at least one
operations
How many times have you been called in the middle of the night by your operation guys telling you that your application throws some odd red alerts? How many times did you found out that when those issues happens you don't have enough information to analyze this incident?
Performance
Recently, I was working on a project that was coming to a close. It was related to optimizing a database using a Java based in-memory cache to reduce the load. The application had to process up to a million objects per day and was characterized by its heavy use of
Python
Today, we are open sourcing the non-blocking web server and the tools that power FriendFeed under the name Tornado Web Server. We are really excited to open source this project as a part of Facebook's open source initiative, and we hope it will be useful to others building
Database
Database normalization is a technique for designing relational database schemas that ensures that the data is optimal for ad-hoc querying and that modifications such as deletion or insertion of data does not lead to data inconsistency. Database denormalization is the process of optimizing your database for reads by creating redundant
General Discussion
In my application, we receive request from many clients through socket.Client can connect to this socket and send data. this connection has to be maintained for indefinite hours. Client are continously sending data . There are so many clients simultaneously to server. I am using java to make application which
resource management
GridwiseTech has developed AdHoc, an advanced framework for sharing geographically distributed data and compute resources. It simplifies the resource management and makes cooperation secure and effective. The premise of AdHoc is to enable each member of the associated institution to control access to his or her resources without an IT
Product
Infinispan is a highly scalable, open source licensed data grid platform in the style of GigaSpaces and Oracle Coherence. From their website: The purpose of Infinispan is to expose a data structure that is highly concurrent, designed ground-up to make the most of modern multi-processor/multi-core architectures while at the