Pratik Dave - It Sure Beats Bookmarks

Weird. I cannot tell whether they let the ad-bots take over entirely, or if they've been hacked. The third option, that they really believe this, seems unlikely in the extreme.

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Mailinator manages 3Tb in a month

Heh, well file this in ye olde thread versus event debate bucket I guess. :-)

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A "new" DoS technique

Wait, depleting the available listen sockets on a server (in this case httpd) is "new"? Really?

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Nuanced, Ambivalent, or Guarded Bumper Stickers

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

LinkedIn: Connecting Hadoop to Voldemort

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test

test note

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Test

testing a link IMDb

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Monday, June 15, 2009

Understanding SSDs

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The TTY demystified

The TTY demystified.

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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Yahoo!'s Hadoop

YHOO's Hadoop"This source distribution includes code patches that we have added to improve the stability and performance of our clusters. In all cases, these patches have already been contributed back to Apache, but they may not yet be available in an Apache release of Hadoop."

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Why Events Are A Bad Idea (for high-concurrency servers)

Why Events Are A Bad Idea (for high-concurrency servers). Sigh, why do so many authors seem to think they have to take such adversarial positions and make religion wars out of simple, rational design decision?

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Friday, June 12, 2009

Facebook Hive

Facebook Hive: Another data warehouse/modelling framework atop Hadoop.

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Single Partition and every-partition transactions

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Pretty self explanatory - as I come across stuff that's interesting that I'll want to refer to later, why not put it somewhere other than a file called bookmarks.html or a directory filled with little text files... If you're reading this... odds are you too are named Pratik Dave and already know how to pronounce your name.

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