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

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 [...] 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