distributed computing

Performance Considerations in Distributed Applications

Distribution and Communication between applications and services is a central concept in modern application architectures. In order to profit from distribution...

1 replies - 3303 views - 09/30/09 by AloisReitbauer in News

Latency is constant - not!

If you read this blog regularily you've probably heard/read about the 8 fallacies of distributed computing once or twice ...

0 replies - 1462 views - 01/26/09 by arnonrgo in News

How Hadoop Map/Reduce works

In my previous post, I talk about the methodology of transforming a sequential algorithm into parallel. After that, we can implement the parallel algorithm,...

3 replies - 6148 views - 12/16/08 by riho in Articles

Exploring Erlang with Map/Reduce

Under the category of "Concurrent Oriented Programming", Erlang has got some good attention recently due to some declared success from Facebook...

0 replies - 5047 views - 06/15/08 by riho in News