Steve Loughran
2013-02-26
Followup: where can we do interesting things at low-levels
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I managed to offend Andrew Purtell of Intel in my last post, so to make up here's some issues why Hadoop benefits from his work Har...
x86 Parts and Server Farms
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Intel have ~85% market share in x86 parts; AMD having the rest. That would seem good except for a quote from that report: Total MPU ...
2013-02-25
The Cheddar Expedition
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Last weekend I took advantage of a confluence of events: sunny weather and no parental obligations, to go for a quick ride down to Cheddar a...
2013-02-19
Load balancing, distribution and failure modes of distributed applications
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I've just been catching up on the RapGenius/Heroku row: that Heroku's load distribution algorithm "random placement" was...
2013-01-25
Spec vs Test
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One of the things I've been busy doing this week is tightening the filesystem contract for Hadoop, as defined in FileSystemContractBa...
2013-01-09
Hadoop Summit: Call for Papers
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There's a CFP out for papers for this summer's (US) Hadoop summit . Having reviewed one of the tracks for the forthcoming Had...
2013-01-07
Gmail account (not mine) potentially 0wned
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A household security announcement: 2013-01-07 21:00 GMT Potential security breach of a home gmail account. At or around 02:00 last night...
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