Facebook has the second largest installation of Hadoop (a software platform that lets one easily write and run distributed applications that process vast amounts of data), Yahoo being the first. It is also the creator of Hive, a data warehouse...
Topics: Cloud Computing, Facebook, Hadoop, Hive, Scalability, Software Architecture, web scalability

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Yahoo! is releasing its own distribution of Hadoop:Hadoop is a distributed file system and parallel execution environment that enables its users to process massive amounts of data.In response to frequent requests from the Hadoop community, Yahoo! is...
Topics: Apache Software Foundation, Cloud Computing, Google, Grid Technologies, Hadoop, Java

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The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) allows customers build secure, fault-tolerant applications that can scale up and down with demand, at low cost. One of the core features for achieving this kind of efficiency and fault-tolerant is the ability.
Topics: Amazon, AMZN, AWS, EC2, fault-tolerant applications, load balancing

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The basic model for MapReduce derives from the map and reduce concept in functional languages like Lisp. In Lisp, a map takes as input a function and a sequence of values and applies the function to each value in the sequence. A reduce takes as...
Topics: .NET, Dryad, Hadoop, MapReduce, Scalability, Web 2.0, web scalability

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Its a rare occasion that I go out of a restaurant (and I go to many) with an absolute feeling of “WOW!”… This Monday was one of these occasions.On the past couple of week we’ve been working on a new, food related venture (more details on that in..
Topics: Fiddme, Finding Inspiration, Maraboo

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