Archive for the 'Hadoop' tag

EC2 Spot instances

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The thing I really like about Amazon’s cloud stuff is they’re constantly undermining themselves with new innovations – spot instances …

Scaling up vs scaling out

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Jeff Atwood goes into some calculations about the cost of scaling up vs scaling out and makes an interesting point, …

Reverse HTTP and the cloud

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I recently read the IETF draft RFC for Reverse HTTP, and it looks like a pretty simple and …

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