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DynamoDB, Explained 1 May 2012 | 04:13 am
What is DynamoDB? DynamoDB is a NoSQL database service offered by Amazon Web Services. It is designed to seamlessly scale in terms of the amount of data and the read/write request volume. You tell it...
How to Install Sqoop on Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) 24 Apr 2012 | 03:54 pm
It is possible to install Sqoop on Amazon EMR. You can use Sqoop to import and export data from a relational database such as MySQL. Here’s how I did it with MySQL. If you are using a different databa...
Script to delete all tables in Hive 19 Apr 2012 | 05:24 am
hive -e ‘show tables’ | xargs -I ‘{}’ hive -e ‘drop table {}’
What #newtwitter means for Twilk 28 Sep 2010 | 05:02 pm
Welp… #newtwitter is coming out. Part of the “enhancement” of the new Twitter layout is the fact that the space in the middle is larger. They basically took the small right column and doubled the size...
How to Scale a Web Application 29 Apr 2010 | 09:38 am
In my mind there are two scaling patterns that are used to scale a typical web application. One handles the computation requirements, the other handles the storage requirements. Another way to think a...
Why I Switched From SVN to Git 7 Jan 2010 | 08:36 pm
A HUGE benefit of git (or any other distributed source code control system) is that the entire repository is stored in each developer’s environment. This means that you automatically have as many back...
Umich CAEN Wireless on Snow Leopard 12 Nov 2009 | 06:30 am
I was just told how to get on to the University of Michigan CAEN Wireless with the VPN client built into Mac OSX Snow Leopard, so I thought I would share. If there’s anyone actually subscribed to my ...
My Thoughts on Startup Weekend Redmond 3 Sep 2009 | 01:46 pm
So, Startup Weekend Redmond happened last weekend. It was hosted by BizSpark on Microsoft’s campus, and heavily branded that way. 14 out of the 15 startups were built using Microsoft technologies [edi...
Twilk, a Twitter Background Generator 4 Jul 2009 | 07:14 pm
Twilk is a web service I’ve been working for a couple months now. I launched it a few weeks ago at a Twitter conference. It automatically creates a Twitter background made up of the profile photos of ...
List of Sites Affected by Fisher Plaza Data Center Fire 4 Jul 2009 | 06:46 am
I’m keeping a list of the sites that were/are seemingly affected by the Fisher Plaza data center fire last night sorted by Alexa Traffic Rank. Comment if you have more information. Sites marked with a...
