Disco is an open-source implementation of the Map-Reduce framework for distributed computing
Bigdata was designed from the ground up as a distributed database architecture optimized for very high aggregate IO rates
The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages.
The largest source of revenue for carriers—fees collected for terminating other carriers’ calls on the network—can be the most frustrating, time consuming and inexact exercise a carrier can go through.
Many principles are widely quoted by which computer operating systems and subsystems might advantageously be designed and implemented. Most of these principles have gained wide acceptance - at least in principle. The situation has been somewhat different in practice
Two French photographers immortalize the remains of the motor city on film
This paper describes a new scheme for guaranteeing that transactions in a client/server system observe consistent state while they are running
This paper described Dynamo, a highly available and scalable data store, used for storing state of a number of core services of Amazon.com’s e-commerce platform
Building reliable distributed systems at a worldwide scale demands trade-offs between consistency and availability.
CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API.
MongoDB is a high-performance, open source, schema-free document database designed for cloud computing
Average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams [...]
In the case of the Keeler photograph, no sooner had it been published (without my permission, in a Sunday tabloid) it was parodied and plagiarised
People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it.
For this exposure I used my black glove as a grad ND