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Entertainment
by Mateusz Berezecki on December 28, 2008
Pingdom has a quite entertaining article about relative safety of online operations at data centers. My personal favorite?
In August, an update to SiteMeter's script (websites can have it include...
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Tools
by Mateusz Berezecki on December 24, 2008
It has not been a long time since version 0.9.1.0 came out, and today we've got another patch release - 0.9.1.1 is out and ready to pick up here.
And as a Christmas bonus here's the link to a...
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Scalability stories
by Mateusz Berezecki on December 24, 2008
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, a...
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Tools
by Mateusz Berezecki on December 22, 2008
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 mos...
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Concepts
by Mateusz Berezecki on December 11, 2008
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 o...
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Concepts
by Mateusz Berezecki on December 8, 2008
Back in 2003, in the 50th issue of the Journal of the ACM (JACM), Jim Gray of Microsoft Research published "What Next? A Dozen Information-Technology Research Goals" article. The article me...
