Entries from November 2008

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Technical Background of EMC’s Atmos Cloud Storage

Surprisingly I found an in-depth background available for undustrial cloude storage project - EMC’s Atmos.
Previously it was OceanStore project and EMC provided funding for the research few years ago.
So, here you are, The OceanStore Project

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Pondering Over The Next Big Thing

The Next Big Thing will come soon. It’s not here yet but it’s close.
Let’s consider symptoms:
– it was growing number of Web 1.0 users who read the web. Also there was small group of content authors who published stuff. Actually these numbers constantly keep growing even now. Less developed countries keep joining a club.
– Web [...]

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Sorting 1PB with MapRaduce at Google

In the following article there is an interesting comparison of Yahoo MapRaduce Stack vs Google One.
Google numbers, numbers…
 

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Java Profiling in Eclipse

Recently we needed to resolve some performance issues, so I looked for the tool and started in eclipse plugin list. Luckily I found a one.
You need to have binary dump of your heap in order to load it there and analyse. You can find how to do that here
But this tool is not a silver [...]

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Насколько важен хороший технический анализ

Недавно Volkswagen обошел Google и Microsoft по капитализации, без каких-либо видимых фундаментальных причин
Здесь можно почитать как зарабатывать деньги из воздуха и сколько стоила неосведомленность хедж-фондам.