Membase – Scalability, HA and Consistency

Posted on April 1, 2011 by spadhy

I was reading a comparison article on High performance computing using distributed disk computing versus distributed in-memory computing and stumbled upon an algorithm used in membase(NOSQL DB) which sounded very interesting. I thought it would be a very interesting subject to see how a layer of abstraction provides tremendous power…

Batch Processing: Choosing the Right Job Scheduler

Posted on November 24, 2010 by spadhy

While I was assisting a client with the selection of a job scheduler that would be implemented enterprise-wide, I ran into a multiple job scheduler each listing its own set of features with minimal overlap of features. It took a lot more time than to create a comparison matrix with…

Risk Management in IT outsourcing: How much commercial risk is reasonable to shoulder

Posted on October 5, 2010 by spadhy

Risk management is defined as identifying, assessing the impact and prioritizing the risks associated with the execution of a project or program. There is a relationship between how risk is managed and the relationship that a service provider shares with the client. Sometimes risks can arise from the internal application…

Data Processing: Do you Map Reduce for Large Datasets

Posted on October 5, 2010 by spadhy

A common problem statement that customers talk about is being able to process large amounts of data quickly. Some of them have the ability to scale up horizontally and some of them have to come up with alternate ways to improve the processing time. Map Reduce implementations can be applied…

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