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		<title>Linkdump: Cassandra lovers, blowing the circuit breaker and Oracle clouds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good points (as always) on Alexandru&#8217;s blog discussing the SQL scalability isn&#8217;t for everyone topic.
NoSQL as RDBMS are just tools for our job and there is nothing about the  death of one of the other. But as we’ve learned over years, every new  programming language is the death of all its precursors, every [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.netuality.ro/linkdump-cassandra-lovers-blowing-the-circuit-breaker-and-oracle-clouds/linkdump/20100304</link>
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		<title>Linkdump: Cassandra @Twitter, Forrester not grokking NoSQL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seven signs you need to accept NoSQL in your life according to the High Scalability blog. I especially like sign #6 &#8220;Maintaining a completely separate object caching system on top  of an already beefy table storage system&#8220;. There are companies making serious bucks from selling exactly this type of caching systems. I find that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.netuality.ro/linkdump-cassandra-twitter-forrester-not-grokking-nosql/linkdump/20100224</link>
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		<title>January 30 linkdump: cloud, cloud, cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes there is such a thing as cloud management services and Cloudkick has a business model around them:
The San Francisco company’s existing features — including a dashboard  with an overview of your cloud infrastructure, email alerts, and graphs  that you help you visualize data like bandwidth requirements — will  always be free, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.netuality.ro/january-30-linkdump-cloud-cloud-cloud/linkdump/20100130</link>
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		<title>January 23 linkdump: grids, BuddyPoke and the state of Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Enterprise Storage a few experts look at grid computing and the future of cloud computing.
Can cloud computing  succeed where grid failed and find widespread acceptance in enterprise  data centers? And is there still room for grid computing in the brave  new world of cloud computing? We asked some grid computing pioneers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.netuality.ro/january-23-linkdump-grids-buddypoke-and-the-state-of-internet/linkdump/20100123</link>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Map/Reduce patent and impact on Hadoop: none expected</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the GigaOm analysis:
Fortunately, for them, it seems unlikely that Google will take to the courts to enforce its new intellectual property. A big reason is that “map” and “reduce” functions have been part of parallel programming for decades, and vendors with deep pockets certainly could make arguments that Google didn’t invent MapReduce at all.
Should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.netuality.ro/googles-mapreduce-patent-and-impact-on-hadoop-none-expected/articles/20100122</link>
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		<title>Benchmarking the cloud: not simple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Understanding the impact of using virtualized servers instead of real ones is perhaps one of the most complex issues when migrating from a traditional configuration to a cloud-based setup. Especially because virtualized servers are created equal &#8230; but only on paper.
A Rackspace-funded &#8220;report&#8221; tries to find out the performance differences between Rackspace Cloud Servers and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.netuality.ro/benchmarking-the-cloud-not-simple/datacenter/20100118</link>
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		<title>January 13 linkdump: KDD, EC2 congested, Coherence, Zimbra</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Call to arms for the annual ACM KDD Conference. KDD stands for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, so if you&#8217;re looking for some hardcore use cases and new algorithms to apply, this is definitely the place to be (Washington, July 25-28):
KDD-2010 will feature keynote presentations, oral paper presentations, 			poster sessions, workshops, tutorials, panels, exhibits, demonstrations, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.netuality.ro/january-13-linkdump-kdd-ec2-congested-coherence-zimbra/linkdump/20100113</link>
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		<title>January 12 linkdump: Reddit on Hadoop on steroids, Hadoop lessons learned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great Hadoop story, and a great read too, from Lau Jensen on Best In Class blog:
Hadoop opens a world of fun with the promise of some heavy lifting and in order to feed the beast I’ve written a Reddit-scraper in just 30 lines of Clojure.
[...]
Now that we’re sitting with almost unlimited insight into the posts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.netuality.ro/january-12-linkdump-reddit-on-hadoop-on-steroids-hadoop-lessons-learned/linkdump/20100112</link>
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		<title>M/R vs DBMS benchmark paper rebutted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent ACM article, Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat are discussing some pitfalls in the Hadoop vs DBMS comparison benchmarks that I&#8217;ve mentioned in one of my previous posts. They are clarifying three M/R misconceptions from the article:

MapReduce cannot use indexes and implies a full scan of all       [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.netuality.ro/mr-vs-dbms-benchmark-paper-rebutted/articles/20100107</link>
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		<title>How big is your meat cloud? The golden number for servers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just went through a recent thread on Slashdot discussing &#8220;how many admins per user computer&#8221; or how many desktops per admin to be more specific. While the client desktop subject is totally uninteresting, I found in the comment noise a few interesting tidbits about the meat cloud size in different server environments.
On the low non-automated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.netuality.ro/how-big-is-your-meat-cloud-the-golden-number-for-servers/datacenter/20100105</link>
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		<title>Hadoop Map/Reduce versus DBMS, benchmarks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a recent benchmark published at SIGMOD ’09 by a team of researchers and students from Brown, M.I.T. and Wisconsin-Madison universities. The details of their setup here and this is the paper (PDF).
They ran a few simple tasks such as loading, „grepping” (as described in the original M/R paper), aggregation, selection and join on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.netuality.ro/hadoop_map_reduce_vs_dbms_benchmarks/articles/20100103</link>
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		<title>Google: sorry, but Lisp/Ruby/Erlang not on the menu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, language propaganda again. Ain&#8217;t it fun ?
Here comes a nice quote from the latest Steve Yegge post (read it entirely if you have the time, it&#8217;s both fun and educational &#8211; at least for me). So, there:
I made the famously, horribly, career-shatteringly bad mistake of trying to use Ruby at Google, for this project. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.netuality.ro/google-sorry-but-lisprubyerlang-not-on-the-menu/tools/20080529</link>
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