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DynamoDB: An Inside Look Into NoSQL – Part 2
In Part 1, we introduced you to NoSQL, spoke about the CAP theorem and certain assumptions that need to be made while designing NoSQL data stores. Let’s dive deeper! Design Considerations Traditional commercial systems and applications perform data replication in … Continue reading
DynamoDB: An Inside Look Into NoSQL – Part 1
In our earlier posts (here and here), we introduced the Hadoop ecosystem & explained its various components using a real world example of the retail industry. We now possess a fair idea of the advantages of Big Data. NoSQL datastores … Continue reading
Hazelcast & Distributed Sequence Counter
There always comes a time in your professional career when you get stuck, and for days at a time! Every developer worth his salt has definitely gone through this phase. Another such moment occurred in my career too recently. We … Continue reading
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Tagged distributed primitives, dynamodb, hazelcast, IAtomicLong, ILock, in memory data grid, Twitter Snowflake
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Big Data for Retail Analysis – Hive & Flume
Last week we introduced Big Data ecosystem and showed a glimpse of the possibilities. This week we take one industry (Retail) use case and illustrate how the various tools can be orchestrated to provide insights. Background The last couple of … Continue reading
Big Data: Getting Started with Hadoop, Sqoop & Hive
We live in the Data Age! Web has been growing rapidly in size as well as scale during the last 10 years and shows no signs of slowing down. Statistics show that every passing year more data gets generated than all … Continue reading
Apache Solr 4 Cookbook – A Review
I got an opportunity to review Apache Solr 4 Cookbook. Read my review below – I recently read this book and I am really impressed! This book provides good understanding of Apache Solr for both developers as well as consultants. … Continue reading
easyXDM made easy. Really!
Today’s world is connected. In the early 1950s, the degrees of separation was 6. Today, with all the Facebooking and Twittering it is just 3. Can you imagine? Just 3. Times have changed. Phew! With this connectedness comes the additional … Continue reading
South Bollywood
You exactly know what this blog post is all about if you have read my tweet. The growing trend in Bollywood is to “go down”. (pun intended but geographically ;-)) The stories are going down, the performances are going down … Continue reading
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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag – The dialogue, not the movie
The highly anticipated, much awaited Bhaag Milkha Bhaag had a grand opening. (pun intended – read the post completely, u will understand :-)) People thronged to the theaters during office hours to see the legend come alive. I too saw … Continue reading
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Play Framework – A simple cookbook
Play Framework is creating a lot of hype but it is still way behind that generated by Bitcoin. Just saying. Anyways, let’s get to the point without beating around the bush. The documentation of Play sucks big (no pun intended … Continue reading
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Tagged akka, async, code snippet, cookbook, jobs, play framework, scheduler, version changes
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