September 9, 2010
Welds BigTable to file system ‘Colossus’ Exclusive Google Caffeine — the remodeled search infrastructure rolled out across Google’s worldwide data center network earlier this year — is not based on MapReduce, the distributed number-crunching platform that famously underpins the company’s previous indexing system. As the likes of Yahoo!, Facebook, and Microsoft work to duplicate MapReduce through the open source Hadoop project , Google is moving on.…
September 9, 2010
Welds BigTable to file system ‘Colossus’ Exclusive Google Caffeine — the remodeled search infrastructure rolled out across Google’s worldwide data center network earlier this year — is not based on MapReduce, the distributed number-crunching platform that famously underpins the company’s previous indexing system.
September 9, 2010
Across the board, all major browser developers are currently working very hard to speed up their software’s performance. While a lot of the focus has currently shifted to hardware acceleration , there are still some speed gains to be made by optimizing most browsers’ JavaScript engines
September 9, 2010
This morning, Apple finally released a set of guidelines to iOS developers — a move which should go a long way in making the process seem less arbitrary.
September 9, 2010
This post was made possible thanks to a phenomenon I call “twitterdipity.” Twitterdipity is the experience of wading in Twitter’s shallow, fast-moving data stream and suddenly – and surprisingly – mining treasure from a tweet. It’s casually catching the eye of good fortune in a speed-of-light culture. It’s when you score a free ticket to an exclusive event or click a game-changing link at just the right time