Experience with Hadoop?
Hi, Have any of you tried Hadoop? Can it be used without the distributed filesystem that goes with it, in a Share-nothing architecture? Would that make sense? I'm also interested into any performance results you have... ...
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Experience documentation about Shared Nothing Architecture
Do you have any experience of designing a Real Shared-Nothing Architecture? Would you have some readings to recommend me? ...
Is Rails shared-nothing or can separate requests access the same runtime variables?
PHP runs in a shared-nothing environment, which in this context means that every web request is run in a clean environment. You can not access another request's data except through a separate persistence layer (filesystem, database, etc.). What about Ruby on Rails? I just read a blog post stating that separate requests might access ...
What are the best papers for learning about algorithms for communicating updates in a distributed system?
I have a distributed system in mind (multiple nodes in a single datacenter) that I want to have the following properties: nodes can enter and leave the system at any time. There is no data replication between nodes. Which node the client makes use of is up to the client (i.e. it could be consistent hashing, it could be something else...