Hadoop 0.20 on Ubuntu Server 9.04 Jaunty

June 29th, 2009 | 6 comments

In the last few weeks, I have become completely fascinated by clustered computing, and solving very large complex problems with a somewhat large number of cheap computers. While researching more efficient ways to store and search through my employers internal resume database, I stumbled onto this software called Hbase, which is a column-oriented database, modeled [...]

Authoritative DNS

June 9th, 2009 | Leave a comment

As much as I love exploring and learning the newer protocols and technologies like SIP, and Enterprise Virtualization, there is something to be said for those standards and protocols that the internet is built from on and designed around. It is quite refreshing to work with a protocol that is not under constant revision and [...]

PostgreSQL 8.3 Warm Stand-by Replication

June 5th, 2009 | 9 comments

In an effort to make things a bit more redundant at my work place, I have implemented PostgreSQL 8.3 warm stand-by replication, as outlined in the pgsql 8.3 manual.The manual leaves the possibilities for implementation pretty wide open, which is good for making things scalable, and applying the process in many different ways, but it [...]