Tag Archives: hadoop
Grid, Cloud, HPC … What's the Diff?
It’s always nice when another piece of the puzzle comes into focus. In this case, my time speaking at the first ever International Super Computer (ISC) Cloud Conference the week before last was well spent. The conference was heavily attended … Continue reading
Up, Out, Centralized, and Decentralized
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 … Continue reading
The Secret Sauce Problem
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 … Continue reading
Hadoop 101 by Chris Wensel
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 … Continue reading