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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
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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