This article http://gigaom.com/2013/01/10/netflix-shows-off-its-hadoop-architecture/
is referring to this Netflix blog post http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/01/hadoop-platform-as-service-in-cloud.html
The Gigaom author, Derrick Harris, has previously written about Netflix's data collection and analysis, see http://gigaom.com/2012/06/14/netflix-analyzes-a-lot-of-data-about-your-viewing-habits/
For those not familiar with Hadoop see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Hadoop or http://hadoop.apache.org/
Should be of interest to Nerds that deal with data, especially large volumes of data.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Nerd News: Open Source Software thanks to Netflix
Full story at Ars http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/eureka-netflix-makes-amazon-more-reliable-with-open-source-software/
Short version, the product called Eureka, "fills a gap in Amazon Web Services by providing load balancing and failover for middle-tier servers."
Nice to see that at least some big companies believe in Open Source.
Short version, the product called Eureka, "fills a gap in Amazon Web Services by providing load balancing and failover for middle-tier servers."
Nice to see that at least some big companies believe in Open Source.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Nerd News: SOPA thoughts BitTorrent vs Netflix
As my regular readers know I am a big fan of ars, and perhaps even bigger fan of the comments section of ars, they cover a lot of Nerd News, and I have learned a lot from reading them.
Today I read an ars article that covers an arguement I have heard before, that a lot of Pirating is because it is hard to buy legit products, I think that vastly oversimplifies the issue. But there is some truth to the argument.
I know from book industry that Baen publishing, one of the first if not the first Book Publisher of any size to do Ebooks has been very successful with their plan.
Baen has never used DRM, heck in certain Hardcover books every year they include a CD with a whole bunch of free Ebooks. They even offer a free Ebook library http://www.baen.com/library/
I found the ars article worth reading, they actually provided some numbers on Netflix vs BitTorrent and others http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/forget-sopa-copyright-owners-must-build-a-better-bittorrent.ars
And as always the comment section was worth reading http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/forget-sopa-copyright-owners-must-build-a-better-bittorrent.ars?comments=1#comments-bar
Today I read an ars article that covers an arguement I have heard before, that a lot of Pirating is because it is hard to buy legit products, I think that vastly oversimplifies the issue. But there is some truth to the argument.
I know from book industry that Baen publishing, one of the first if not the first Book Publisher of any size to do Ebooks has been very successful with their plan.
Baen has never used DRM, heck in certain Hardcover books every year they include a CD with a whole bunch of free Ebooks. They even offer a free Ebook library http://www.baen.com/library/
I found the ars article worth reading, they actually provided some numbers on Netflix vs BitTorrent and others http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/forget-sopa-copyright-owners-must-build-a-better-bittorrent.ars
And as always the comment section was worth reading http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/forget-sopa-copyright-owners-must-build-a-better-bittorrent.ars?comments=1#comments-bar
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