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
There are plenty of startups that want to revolutionize the media business or transform the journalism profession.
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
I’ve spent two days listening to and reading near-constant coverage of the wacko who’s planning to burn Korans in Gainsville, Florida, and increasingly the stories have been about whether or not all the press attention has been irresponsible.
