Seen that? - Seen that? - Seen that? - Seen that? - KFS at Quantcast Googlestack

Seen that? - Seen that? - Seen that? - KFS at Quantcast Googlestack Seen that? - Seen that? - KFS at Quantcast [...] Read More


KFS at Quantcast Googlestack

With people claiming Quantcast is using Hadoop, and not giving a credit to the KFS it is necessary to give more details about the story, and not so surprisingly, the details are available instantly, and here they are (these details refer to Quantcast KFS deployment)


Two deployments:
-  130 node cluster hosting log data
- ~2M files; 70TB of data; WORM system
- Metaserver uses ~2GB RAM
- ~1TB of data copied in during [...] Read More

Seen that? - Seen that? - Seen that? - Seen that? - Open-source alternatives to BigTable Googlestack

Seen that? - Seen that? - Seen that? - Open-source alternatives to BigTable at Googlestack Seen that? - Seen that? - Open-source alternatives to BigTable [...] Read More


Open-source alternatives to BigTable Googlestack

disclosure: I am a Hypertable MapReduce contributor, and this post has nothing to do with increasing publicity of the project, the opinions presented here are the opinions of my own One of the most important google stack components is BigTable, the underlying data store. With it's proven scalability and availability characteristics, there was no wonder that sooner or later some open source alternative would have been created. I have already described [...] Read More


Columns versus Rows Googlestack

In an attempt to bring the column oriented storage closer to the readers, I've managed to find a series of really great explanations about these two distinct storage schemes. While still theoretical these will definitely serve as a good and thorough (but not so hard to read) explanation on the subject matter. Once we got through these we'll see some more practical things in the next posts. Here's the list [...] Read More


We screwed up on open source, says Sun Chief Open Source Officer Java Entrepreneur

Yes you read it absolutely correctly; this is what Simon Phipps, Sun's Chief Open Source Officer said recently in an interview. Check out what he had to say: Open source developers have been much more skeptical of Sun; a lot of open source developers don't remember the fact that Sun was pretty much the first open source start-up in 1982. All they can remember is what happened in 2001/2002 when, to [...] Read More


Open Source Testing Tools The CIO Weblog

According to a post at the O'Reilly Weblog by Kevin Shockey - SpikeSource will host their first TestFest in their Redwood City Headquarters. With free food, free drinks, and free presentations on June 17, 2005 at 3:00pm. - I wish i could attend. Register HereSpikeSource, Inc. has brought to market a set of tools. The recently announced availability of an automated testing service should prove to be an irreplaceable tool [...] Read More

Seen that? - Seen that? - Seen that? - Columns versus Rows Googlestack

Seen that? - Seen that? - Columns versus Rows at Googlestack Seen that? - Columns versus Rows at [...] Read More


Columns versus Rows Googlestack

In an attempt to bring the column oriented storage closer to the readers, I've managed to find a series of really great explanations about these two distinct storage schemes. While still theoretical these will definitely serve as a good and thorough (but not so hard to read) explanation on the subject matter. Once we got through these we'll see some more practical things in the next posts. Here's the list [...] Read More


Outline of The Google Software Stack Googlestack

Introduction The beginning of the research on software scalability spurred the research on fault tolerance and management technologies. After all, if you have a lot of software running on hundreds or even thousands of machines you have to know what's going on inside this set of machines, and when things break, you want the software to take care of it. These concepts, scalability, fault tolerance and software management, are so inherently [...] Read More


Girl Gamers Unite to form Versus XboxSpace

Ex-Frag Doll UK Voodoo FD has teamed up with another UK Gamer Vixen to create a new gaming website called ww.weareversus.com. The site, which officially launched yesterday, will act as a home to the two gamers, as well as a showcase for VersusS TV. As part of the launch, Voodoo FD has also changed her XBox Live gamertag to Siren.The focus is on sharing and venting views and opinions on [...] Read More


Google’s Bigtable - Distributed Storage System On Storage

StorageMojo » Google's Bigtable Distributed Storage System, Pt. I: I know full well that I lack the background to *really* understand this sort of system, but I love the idea of it, I love reading about it - and I love what Google are doing to push the technology envelope. [...] Read More

Seen that? - Seen that? - Seen that? - KFS at Quantcast Googlestack

Seen that? - Seen that? - KFS at Quantcast at Googlestack Seen that? - KFS at Quantcast at [...] Read More


KFS at Quantcast Googlestack

With people claiming Quantcast is using Hadoop, and not giving a credit to the KFS it is necessary to give more details about the story, and not so surprisingly, the details are available instantly, and here they are (these details refer to Quantcast KFS deployment)


Two deployments:
-  130 node cluster hosting log data
- ~2M files; 70TB of data; WORM system
- Metaserver uses ~2GB RAM
- ~1TB of data copied in during [...] Read More

Seen that? - Seen that? - Seen that? - Open-source alternatives to BigTable at Googlestack

Seen that? - Seen that? - Open-source alternatives to BigTable at Googlestack Seen that? - Open-source alternatives to BigTable at [...] Read More


Open-source alternatives to BigTable at Googlestack

disclosure: I am a Hypertable MapReduce contributor, and this post has nothing to do with increasing publicity of the project, the opinions presented here are the opinions of my own One of the most important google stack components is BigTable, the underlying data store. With it's proven scalability and availability characteristics, there was no wonder that sooner or later some open source alternative would have been created. I have already described [...] Read More


Columns versus Rows at Googlestack

In an attempt to bring the column oriented storage closer to the readers, I've managed to find a series of really great explanations about these two distinct storage schemes. While still theoretical these will definitely serve as a good and thorough (but not so hard to read) explanation on the subject matter. Once we got through these we'll see some more practical things in the next posts. Here's the list [...] Read More


We screwed up on open source, says Sun Chief Open Source Officer at Java Entrepreneur

Yes you read it absolutely correctly; this is what Simon Phipps, Sun's Chief Open Source Officer said recently in an interview. Check out what he had to say: Open source developers have been much more skeptical of Sun; a lot of open source developers don't remember the fact that Sun was pretty much the first open source start-up in 1982. All they can remember is what happened in 2001/2002 when, to [...] Read More


Open Source Testing Tools at The CIO Weblog

According to a post at the O'Reilly Weblog by Kevin Shockey - SpikeSource will host their first TestFest in their Redwood City Headquarters. With free food, free drinks, and free presentations on June 17, 2005 at 3:00pm. - I wish i could attend. Register HereSpikeSource, Inc. has brought to market a set of tools. The recently announced availability of an automated testing service should prove to be an irreplaceable tool [...] Read More