
I am not going to do a ton of book reviews on this blog (I have one more planned for next month). I’ll only bother posting reviews of books that I believe...
0 replies - 1306 views - 01/18/13 by Jez Humble in Articles

We wanted to tail one of the log files simultaneously on 12 servers this afternoon to try and see if a particular event was being logged and rather than...
0 replies - 1367 views - 01/18/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

I recently read the white paper “Challenges and Opportunities with Big Data” published by the Computing Community Consortium of the CRA. It was...
0 replies - 552 views - 01/18/13 by Mikio Braun in Articles

We had our scrum of scrum meetings last Wednesday where all scrum masters meet up with our line manager to discuss issues, bottlenecks and success stories of...
0 replies - 2529 views - 01/17/13 by Dinuka Arseculeratne in Articles

I always wondered if you could extract structured data from Wikipedia. Then I stumbled upon DBPedia and SPARQL. DBPedia stores...
0 replies - 2384 views - 01/17/13 by Krishna Prasad in Articles

Apache Lucene and Solr PMC recently announced another version of Apache Lucene library and Apache Solr search server numbred 3.6.2. This is a minor bugfix...
0 replies - 612 views - 01/17/13 by Rafał Kuć in Articles

Once again, interesting posts and articles here and there...[RIP] doctorow‘s obit for Aaron Swartz: http://boingboing.net/…“what color do you...
0 replies - 1045 views - 01/17/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles

London Stansted Airport, early afternoon – a huge crowd at the railway station. No trains – only people, and a lot of confusion and anger. Having just...
0 replies - 998 views - 01/17/13 by Matthias Marschall in Articles

Many enterprise applications require batch processing to process billions of transactions every day. These big transaction sets have to be processed without...
0 replies - 630 views - 01/17/13 by Eren Avşaroğulları in Articles

In the previous posts I talked about what streamdrill is good for and how it compares to other Big Data approaches to real-time...
0 replies - 789 views - 01/16/13 by Mikio Braun in Articles

Most software need saving data. Sometimes that data is predicted to be small and hundreds or thousands of transactions on it will not be needed at the same...
0 replies - 1394 views - 01/16/13 by Cagdas Basaraner in Articles

Is the inevitable Big Data shakeout coming? If you are an enterprise customer, how do you prepare for this? What strategies do you adopt to take...
0 replies - 1381 views - 01/16/13 by Ravi Kalakota in Articles

This post covers the pattern of secondary sorting, found in chapter 3 of Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce. While Hadoop...
0 replies - 888 views - 01/16/13 by Bill Bejeck in Articles

Problem
You're using Postgres.app on a Mac for local development but are getting SQL errors from your application. You're seeing an error...
0 replies - 753 views - 01/16/13 by David Winterbottom in Articles

We now have the logs coming from CloudFront, Web/App and Search tier to the centralized log storage in Amazon S3. In this final post...
0 replies - 1033 views - 01/16/13 by Raghuraman Bala... in Articles