This is a great talk with the head of Yahoo’s grid team that talks about the open source project Hadoop, which is an open source distributed file system and MapReduce implementation. The video is long and interspersed with Yahoo! specifics you might not care about – but keep watching, because they swing back to talking…
Month: January 2008
Python Magazine on IRC
It occurs to me that lots of people have no idea that Python Magazine has an IRC channel! Since I know a lot of our authors, and even more of our readers, actually use IRC, we’ve created a channel called #pymag on irc.freenode.net (FreeNode in most clients). The goal of the channel is to be…
Dear VirtueDesktops Guy
Note: if you’re a Leopard user wishing Apple’s Spaces was never invented, and you’d pay to have VirtueDesktops back, please leave a ‘me too’ post in the comments! UPDATE: See this link to make Spaces not *completely* useless: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2008021122525348 Please pick development back up for VirtueDesktops. Apple’s spaces not only falls short, it totally sucks….
Sun Acquires MySQL
I’m pretty sure I’m not pleased about this, but I guess only time will tell. Maybe now my boss will let me move to PostgreSQL 😀 See the news release here Blogged with Flock
Do You, Um…. Brew?
A long time ago, a buddy of mine got me into brewing beer. I’m not talking about buying a can o’ syrup and adding water – I’m talking about buying grain, taking it home, milling it, mashing it, hopping it, fermenting it, bottling and kegging it…. *really* brewing beer. Anyway, it turns out that a…
AppLogic Cheat Sheet
I’ve been using AppLogic for exactly one month today, and I’ve learned a whole heckuva lot about what it takes to build an infrastructure using the AppLogic grid operating system. One of the very first things I learned is that there is just a TON of documentation, but a very large portion of it is…
Identifying Database Badness
I started my career on the database end of the technological landscape, as a consulting database reporting specialist, then later as a consulting DBA for Sybase. It was there that I discovered that the real fun was in system administration, but I still have a deep love for data organization, modeling, and management, even though…