DevOps
Rollout, Degrade, Metrics and Capacity
Last week I attended a presentation by James Golick, CTO of fetlife.com. Intriguingly advertised as Scaling a Website to 300 Million Page Views Per Month with
Run The Latest Whirr And Deploy HBase In Minutes
In a few of my recent posts I have covered the ease of deploying clusters of Hadoop and Cassandra using Whirr. With Whirr you can simply write a
Quickly Launch A Cassandra Cluster On Amazon EC2
If you have read my previous post, Map-Reduce With Ruby Using Hadoop, then you will know that firing up a Hadoop cluster is really simple when you use
De-volatile Your Memcached. Upgrade to Membase
Membase's TCP interface is identical Memcached, so migrating your existing code-base will not be an issue at all.
SQLShell. A Cross-Database SQL Tool With NoSQL Potential
In this blog post I will introduce SQLShell and demonstrate, step-by-step, how to install it and start using it with MySQL. I will also reflect on the possibilites of using this with NoSQL technologies, such as HBase, MongoDB, Hive, CouchDB, Redis and Google BigQuery. SQLShell is a cross-platform, cross-database command-line tool for SQL, much like psql for PostgreSQL or the mysql command-line tool for MySQL.