Tag Archives: hadoop

Up, Out, Centralized, and Decentralized

July 28, 2009 – 08:30

It can be confusing to understand how to scale computing systems, but it’s not rocket science.  There are really only two main axes of scale: out and up.  Closely related to the axis of scale is the general type of architecture: centralized or decentralized.  In this article I’m going to briefly revisit scaling and then [...]

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The Secret Sauce Problem

July 18, 2009 – 20:25

The vast majority of web applications have what I call The Secret Sauce Problem.  Every commercial web service of any kind needs to be differentiated in order to be interesting and attractive to customers.  There isn’t any kind of differentiation in a typical 3-tier or N-tier[1] web application stack. This leads to needing secret sauce [...]

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Hadoop 101 by Chris Wensel

June 22, 2009 – 09:15

What conversation about cloud computing is complete without a mention of big data, distributing processing, and distributed databases?  There is a recent trend away from relying exclusively on the traditional relational database for everything.  Newer technologies like BigTable and Hadoop provide an alternative mechanism for storing and processing large sets of data that don’t necessarily [...]

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