Friday, June 27, 2014

Apache Cassandra : Things to consider before choosing Cassandra

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A lot has been written about NoSql databases. There is lot of hype surrounding many of these databases. Unfortunately most written material...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Apache Kafka JAVA tutorial #1

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In Apache Kafka introduction we discussed some key features of Kafka. In this tutorial we will setup a small Kafka cluster. We will send m...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Apache Kafka Introduction : Should I use Kafka as a message broker ?

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Asynchronous messaging is an important component of any distributed application. Producers and consumers of messages are de-coupled. Produc...
Friday, March 28, 2014

10 Tips for building low latency applications

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In this previous blog on low latency I described 5 tips for building low latency applications. Read that for the first 5 tips. Here are 5 ...
Friday, February 28, 2014

Hadoop 2.x cluster setup tutorial

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Recently I had the opportunity to setup a multi-node hadoop cluster. The apache documentation is a little thin and I had to spend several ...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

JAVA NIO Networking tutorial

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In the NIO tutorial , I provided an overview of the nio package in JAVA that enables developers to build scalable applications using non bl...
Monday, December 23, 2013

Streaming Big Data using Storm

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Storm  is an open source distributed system for processing streams of data. In MapReduce and Hadoop tutorial we discussed the use of Hado...