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MongoSV Conference
It was great attending the MongoSV conference last week. The conference was packed with attendees from a mix of backgrounds, showing lots of interest in scaling with MongoDB. There were some good technical talks from 10gen about their database. I especially liked the hands on intro by CEO Dwight Merriman, and the hand drawn slides […]
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Foursquare’s MongoDB Outage
October 15, 2010
Foursquare recently suffered a total site outage for eleven hours. The outage was caused by unexpected uneven growth in their MongoDB database that their monitoring didn’t detect. The system outage was prolonged when an attempt to add a partition didn’t work due to fragmentation, and required taking the database offline to compact it. This article […]
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LinkedIn’s Data Infrastructure
August 4, 2010
Jay Kreps of LinkedIn presented some informative details of how they process data at the recent Hadoop Summit. Kreps described how LinkedIn crunches 120 billion relationships per day and blends large scale data computation with high volume, low latency site serving. Much of LinkedIn’s important data is offline – it moves fairly slowly. So they […]
Facebook on Hadoop, Hive, HBase, and A/B Testing
July 14, 2010
The Hadoop Summit of 2010 included presentations from a number of large scale users of Hadoop and related technologies. Notably, Facebook presented a keynote and details information about their use of Hive for analytics. Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s VP of Engineering delivered a keynote describing the scale of their data processing with Hadoop. Schroepfer gave an […]
Yahoo! Updates from Hadoop Summit 2010
July 12, 2010
The Hadoop Summit of 2010 started off with a vuvuzela blast from Blake Irving, Chief Product Officer for Yahoo. Yahoo delivered keynote addresses that outlined the scale of their use, technical directions for their contributions, and architectural patterns in how they apply the technology. The increasing interest in Hadoop was evident: this year’s conference had […]
GigaOm Structure Highlights
July 9, 2010
The GigaOM Stucture conference a couple of weeks ago addressed many areas of cloud computing. One of the key themes of the event was the emergence of new data architectures. Throughout the panels, interviews, and presentations many speakers identified significant changes in how data gets handled that will be coming. Paul Maritz, CEO of VMWare, […]
Moving to WordPress
May 16, 2007
I’m starting the process of moving my blog from http://rbodkin.blogs.com/ to https://rbodkin.wordpress.com. So please watch this space for future posts.
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Glassbox Lab at JavaOne Today
May 9, 2007
This is just a quick note to let everyone know that MaxPoon and Paul Cheung are doing a lab session with hands on Glassbox content at JavaOne today from 1:30pm to 3:30pm. I’ll be there also to answer questions. Here are the details:Nonintrusive Monitoring of Java Technology-Based Applications with Java Management Extensions (JMX) Technology, JConsole, […]
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Two Useful Aspects
November 15, 2006
Sometimes it’s refreshing to write a useful little aspect. Just last night I was reviewing some code that colleagues wrote for thread safety and I found this to be a really efficient way to find likely danger spots: public aspect TrackCollectionAccess { declare warning: set(java.util.Collection+ *.*) || get(java.util.Collection+ *.*): "collection field access"; declare warning: […]
Posted in: Aspect-Oriented Programming
Learning About Aspects
November 14, 2006
I enjoyed being back at a couple of No Fluff Just Stuff conferences this fall (including the Rocky Mountain Software Symposium this past weekend). Jay Zimmerman continues to do a great job of providing fresh technical content with great speakers and it’s always fun to talk the audiences at these about topics like Glassbox, AOP, […]
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