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Videos on scalable web architectures

If you are like me, you are already following all the talks and presentations published on YouTube. But if you have not been, nothing stops you from starting now. A new “Videos” page has been added to this blog to list the latest YouTube videos related to scalable web architectures.
Videos related to scalable web [...]

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Google patents Map reduce “System and method for efficient large-scale data processing”

After filing in 2004, google finally got its patent on “System and method for efficient large-scale data processing”  approved  yesterday.
Gigaom pointed out that if Google really wants to enforce it, it would have to go after many different vendors who are implementing “mapreduce” in some form in their applications and databases.
Google’s intentions of [...]

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Scalability Stories (15th Sept) Mysql Proxy, Cluster Fire System, Facebook apps and Twitter

There have been a lot of interesting stories from last week for me to share. If you have interesting links you want to add to this post please forward them to me or post a comment to this post.

Sun is planning to acquire majority stake of “Cluster File Systems, Inc“. [ Talk on Lustre [...]

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