Few weeks ago while I was mulling over what kind of service registry/discovery system to use for a scalable application deployment platform, I realized that for mid-size organizations with complex set of services, building one from scratch may be the only option.
I also found out that many AWS/EC2 customers have already been using S3 and [...]

Syslog is a commonly used transport mechanism for system logs. But people sometimes forget it could be used for a lot of other purposes as well.
Take, for example, the interesting challenge of aggregating web server logs from 100 different servers into one server and then figuring out how to merge them. If you have [...]

Cassandra is the only NOSQL datastore I’m aware of, which is scalable, distributed, self replicating, eventually consistent, schema-less key-value store running on java which doesn’t have a single point of failure. HBase could also match most of these requirements, but Cassandra is easier to manage due to its tiny footprint.
The one thing Cassandra doesn’t do [...]