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Joe Stump - Scaling Digg and Other Web Applications 12 Mar 2009 | 08:30 am
Joe Stump is currently the Lead Architect for Digg where he spends his time partitioning data, creating internal services, and ensuring the code frameworks are in working order. Digg by the number
Using the Cloud to build highly-efficient systems - All Things Distributed 25 Feb 2009 | 05:12 am
Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, explained clearly why the Cloud is used to build highly-efficient systems. "By using infrastructure as a service, basic IT costs are moved from a capital expense
Hypertable: An Open Source, High Performance, Scalable Database 23 Feb 2008 | 06:42 pm
Hypertable is an open source project to develop massively parallel high performance database platform. Its architecture more or less follows Google's bigtable design. The project goal is to bring
TIPC Project Home Page 15 Feb 2008 | 04:26 pm
The TIPC project is an Open Source implementation of the Transparent Inter Process Communication (TIPC) protocol. TIPC is designed for use in clustered computer environments, allowing designers to cr
OpenSAF.org 15 Feb 2008 | 04:25 pm
OpenSAF is an open source project established to develop a base platform middleware consistent with Service Availability™ Forum (SA Forum™) specifications, under the LGPLv2.1 license. The OpenSAF Fou
The Chubby Lock Service for Loosely-Coupled Distributed Systems 6 Feb 2008 | 06:55 am
We describe our experiences with the Chubby lock service, which is intended to provide coarse-grained locking as well as reliable (though low-volume) storage for a loosely-coupled distributed system.
Bee Strategy Helps Servers Run More Sweetly 12 Dec 2007 | 08:45 pm
Honeybees somehow manage to efficiently collect a lot of nectar with limited resources and no central command - after all, the queen bee is too busy laying eggs to oversee something as mundane as whe
What Drives Performance in HPC 6 Dec 2007 | 06:25 am
What Drives Performance in HPC? That's a good question. What does drive performance in HPC? On a qualitative basis its easy to answer. A faster proce
Google Scalability Conference Trip Report: GFS, MapReduce, and BigTable 29 Nov 2007 | 07:41 pm
In a blog post, Microsoft's Dare Obasanjo shared his notes from the keynote session MapReduce, BigTable, and Other Distributed System Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets by Jeff Dean.rnrnThe
Hbase: Bigtable-like structured storage for Hadoop HDFS 18 Nov 2007 | 07:55 am
Google's Bigtable, a distributed storage system for structured data, is a very effective mechanism for storing very large amounts of data in a distri
