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Hypertable Lead Discusses Hadoop and Distributed Databases
Two open source projects related to Hadoop, HBase and Hypertable, provide Big Table inspired scalable database implementations. InfoQ sat down with Doug Judd, Principal Search Architect at Zvents, Inc. and Hypertable project founder, to discuss its implementation.
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Amazon S3 Outage : Do SLAs Lead to Trust?
Amazon Web Services' popular Simple Storage Service (S3) suffered a major outage last week that caused some to question their reliance on S3. InfoQ discussed the outage with Amazon and affected users and examines the risks of SaaS and cloud architectures.
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Apache Wicket 1.3.1 Release Supports Transparent Clustering
The Wicket team has announced Wicket 1.3.1, the first maintenance release of Wicket 1.3. 1.3.1 adds transparent clustering support out-of-the-box.
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Article: Implementing Master-Worker with Terracotta
In this case study, Shine Technologies explained how they used Terracotta and the Master Worker pattern to process large volumes of electricity usage data weekly and generate reports with detailed reconciliation & discrepancy highlighting for their customers.
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Java Clustering Framework Shoal Provides Fault Tolerance and Distributed State Cache
Shoal is a java clustering framework that provides infrastructure to build fault tolerance, reliability and availability for java application servers. It can also be plugged into any application that needs clustering and distributed systems capabilities. Shoal is the clustering engine for GlassFish and JonAS application servers and provides a distributed state cache for storing application state.
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Introducing Windows HPC Server 2008
A new version of the Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, rebranded as Windows HPC Server 2008, is in the works. This adds a host of monitoring and configuration tools on top of Microsoft's MPI 2 based clustering technology.
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Amazon EC2 Gains Favor with JEE and Groovy Developers
Using the EC2 API is straightforward, but to make life even simpler Chris Richardson has posted a Groovy framework that can launch MySQL, Apache HTTP Server, a set of Tomcat instances and JMeter, as well as deploying web applications to Amazon's EC2.
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Gigaspaces Launches OpenSpaces Community Portal
Gigaspaces, a company known for providing software solutions, has launched a new community website OpenSpaces.org. GigaSpaces is also allowing individuals and startup-companies under $5 million in revenue to use GigaSpaces products for free of charge under its Start-Up Program.
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GigaSpaces goes free for small business
Gigaspaces earlier this month announced that it will now be offering small business free perpetual use of its eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) product. Business with < 5M in revenues can get free licenses of the software platform, in perpetuity. GigaSpaces platform is primarily Java-based but also has .NET clients. InfoQ spoke to Geva Perry from GigaSpaces to find out more.
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Ari Zilka on Terracotta, Clustering and Open Source
Ari Zilka, co-founder and CTO of Terracotta, spoke with InfoQ about the capabilities of Terracotta, the use cases it supports, and the rationale and impact of taking Terracotta to an open source model.
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Scaling Web Applications using Cache Farms and Read Pools
Exploring a couple of lesser known tools in the architects' scaling toolkit.
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Catching up with Terracotta: Transition to Open Source, Adoption, Hibernate Support
As reported on InfoQ, the VC-backed Terracotta went open source at the end of 2006, since then things have taken off. InfoQ spoke to Ari Zilka about the transition to open source and new features in the recently released version 2.4.
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Read/Write Splitting with MySQL-Proxy
Read/Write Splitting is an innovative use of the recently released MySQL Proxy that implements a master/slave database replication solution. Using this technique, SELECT queries are sent to slave instances, while transactional queries run against the master instance.
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GigaSpaces XAP 6.0：スペースベースアーキテクチャ向けの簡易化SpringベースAPI
GigaSpaces recently released version 6.0 of it's eXtreme Application Platform (XAP), which is an infrastructure software platform that provides scaling out of applications in distributed environments. InfoQ spoke with Geva Perry and Nati Shalom of GigaSpaces to learn more about this release and the changes that have occurred in this version.
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Interview: Yahoo's Doug Cutting on MapReduce and the Future of Hadoop
In this special InfoQ interview, Hadoop project lead Doug Cutting discusses MapReduce, the benefits of open source, and the future direction of the project.