Monthly Archives: August 2007

Counting stuff is really hard (Skrentablog) “But if you come to a point in your design where something like Paxos needs to be brought out, maybe the universe is telling you that you’re doing it wrong.” (tags: distributed system architecture … Continue reading →

millets.storefront – Solar Charger – Walking Kit Solar charger with a mini-usb output for charging small devices (tags: solar power charger hiking)

Elias Torres » Blog Archive » Cheap Bets The key of my prediction is that with all of the stores and compute farms in the clouds, it’ll be a matter of creating distributed programs that can easily be managed to … Continue reading →

Blogging Persai Persai Feed Corpus (tags: feed data datasets) Webapps scalability presentations A nice group of presentations all in one place (via sam ruby) (tags: web architecture presentations scaling) Keeping track of 300 servers « Barry on WordPress Good to … Continue reading →

Running Hadoop MapReduce on Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 Nice to see this working at long last. (via Dan Creswell) (tags: amazon hadoop mapreduce ec2 distributed)

Data Visualization: Modern Approaches (tags: graphics inspiration visualization data)

Scale-up x Scale-out: A Case Study using Nutch/Lucene Another conclusion of our work is that a scale-out system can achieve about four times the performance of a similarly priced scale-up system. In the case of our application, this performance is … Continue reading →

All Things Distributed: Dynamo Reference Looking forward to this, wondering if Amazon are going to release it tomorrow (tags: amazon web services dynamo database saas)

SIMILE | Timeplot Timeplot is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for plotting time series and overlay time-based events over them (with the same data formats that Timeline supports). (tags: ajax api calendar graph visualization)