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Building an Impenetrable ZooKeeper
Kathleen Ting details 8 misconfigurations that can bring ZooKeeper down.
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Fear No More: Embrace Eventual Consistency
Sean Cribbs compares ACID with BASE, explaining the virtues and tradeoffs of eventually consistent systems and what developers should know in order to feel comfortable working with EC systems.
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How to Build Big Data Pipelines for Hadoop Using OSS
Costin Leau discusses Big Data, current available tools for dealing with it, and how Spring can be used to create Big Data pipelines.
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Exploiting Loopholes in CAP
Michael Nygard explores some of the available loopholes in the CAP theorem helping architects to engineer distributed systems that meet their needs.
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Migration to Model Driven Engineering in the Development Process of Distributed Scientific Application Software
Daniel Rahon, Sébastien Schneider, Raphael Gayno, Jean Marc Gratien, Goulwen Le Fur present the process used in the development of distributed scientific applications at IFP Energies Nouvelles, France
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Storm: Distributed and Fault-Tolerant Real-time Computation
Nathan Marz introduces Twitter Storm, outlining its architecture and use cases, and takes a look at future features to be made available.
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Extending the Enterprise Data Warehouse with Hadoop
Rob Lancaster explains the steps made by Orbitz in order to bridge the gap between their data in the data warehouse and the data in Hadoop.
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Introducing Apache Hadoop: The Modern Data Operating System
Eli Collins introduces Hadoop: why it came about, the benefits it produces, its history, its architecture, use cases and applications.
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Architecting a RESTful Cloud - The Key to Elasticity
Jason Bloomberg explains the architectural requirements for Cloud-based applications and how REST can be used to achieve elasticity in the cloud.
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Petabyte Scale Data at Facebook
Dhruba Borthakur discusses the different types of data used by Facebook and how they are stored, including graph data, semi-OLTP data, immutable data for pictures, and Hadoop/Hive for analytics.
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Clojure + Datomic + Storm = Zolodeck
Amit Rathore describes the architecture of Zolodeck, a virtual relationship manager built on Clojure, Datomic, and Storm.
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Big Time: Introducing Hadoop on Azure
Yaniv Rodenski introduces Hadoop, then running Hadoop on Azure and the available tools and frameworks.