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SVLUG: MapR Hadoop
Tonite at the Silicon Valley Users Group, Tomer Shiran, Director of Product Management, MapR Technologies, Inc. gave a talk on their MapR Hadoop product. Tomer did a great job of answering a variety of...
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MySQL and Managing Disk Space on linux
As with any complex program, MySQL does not work well when your system runs out of disk space. Typical problems with “disk full” include: manual intervention is difficult and time-consuming when the...
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Cassandra User Group: Jonathan Ellis Discusses Cassandra 1.1
At the Cassandra User Group Meetup tonite, Jonathan Ellis discussed Apache Cassandra 1.1 for an hour and answered questions. Jonathan Ellis is project chair for Apache Cassandra and co-founder of...
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Bay Area Hadoop User Group Monthly Meetup – Datameer and Oozie
I went to the Bay Area Hadoop User Group (HUG) Monthly Meetup at Yahoo! tonite. It was nice to see URL’s Restaurant again. There was a demo of Datameer. After that, two Yahoo! engineers gave a lecture...
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Linux Leap Second Bug Increased CPU and Power Consumption
The Linux kernel has struggled with leap seconds since at least 2005. Fascinating graph below of a data center’s (Hetzner in Germany) additional power consumption after the most recent (2012) leap...
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Percona Live MySQL Conference And Expo 2013
The Percona Live MySQL Conference was held once again at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Percona did a great job of organizing the show, with a good program, full exhibits area, and a few thousand...
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Cassandra Database Summit 2013 San Francisco
Cassandra Database Summit 2013 was another great conference by DataStax, held at historic Fort Mason in San Francisco. The fort’s various barracks were used as meeting rooms. It made for a long trip...
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NOC Displays
Blekko Graphing: D3JS, ChartIO, Highcharts, Google Charts, GD Graphing Samples: flickr/webopsviz, Spinn3r 3.0 admin console Deep Visualization: blekko’s ambient cluster health visualization Resources...
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Hadoop Has No Business Model
I had a chance to talk to a Big Data sales manager 5 years ago. He said, “Hadoop is a tough sale on the East Coast. Hoping Spark will help.” Now, MapR is facing insolvency and Cloudera/Hortonworks...
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