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Open Source Google-Like Infrastructure Project Hadoop Gains Momentum
While it has been in existence for over a year, open source Google-like infrastructure project Hadoop is just now receiving wider noticed by the development community. Recently Yahoo's Jeremy Zawodny provided a status update showing benchmark performance improving by 20x in the last year.
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Amazon adds a machine image marketplace to EC2
Amazon continues to create more competitive advantage for its infrastructure services platform (AWS) by introducing a new marketplace which allows image producers to charge customers for the machine images they develop.
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Using Amazon Web Services to Implement a Video File Conversion app
As covered on InfoQ in the past, Amazon's infrastructure services platform is enabling new levels of cost savings as well as capabilities for certain classes of applications that can map to its scalable compute and storage services. One recent sample application demonstrates building a complete video file conversion service.
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Configured Rails software stacks become available
Setting up and configuring servers is tedious work, particularly if a lot of libraries are involved. The Rails community has started looking into solutions for solving this, and the first are now available.
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Interview: Ezra Zygmuntowicz on Engine Yard and Rails Deployment
Exclusive InfoQ interview with Rails deployment guru Ezra Zygmuntowicz. The topics include scaling Rails, Ruby threading, and Ezra's venture Engine Yard, an interesting new Rails hosting service that employs Xen and virtualization to provide scalable service.
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MapReduce Gaining Traction: Tools Plugin Released for Eclipse and Amazon EC2 Support
IBM's Alphaworks website has released an Eclipse plugin to simplify the development of applications using Hadoop, the open source Java MapReduce framework. Work has also been done to easily allow Hadoop applications to run on Amazon's EC2 and S3 platforms for processing and storage.
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Run Your Own Google Style Computing Cluster with Hadoop and Amazon EC2
Amazon's EC2 Elastic Computing cloud allows developers to acquisition computing power a the rate of $0.10 per hour consumed. Work as been done to allow Hadoop an open source MapReduce implementation written in Java to run on EC2. This combination will allow developers to write scalable algorithms and then bring up large numbers of servers to use as computing power for them as needed.