GoogleMesa
How Google Mesa Works (Short Summary)
Mesa is a highly scalable analytic data warehousing system that stores critical measurement data related to Google's Internet advertising business.
30 July 2014 · 2 min read
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2014
5 posts
ArchitectureData Engineering
Design and Architecture considerations for storing time series data
Key design considerations for storing time series data, including access pattern analysis, windowed storage strategies, and the trade-offs between granularity and performance.
16 June 2014 · 2 min read
Data EngineeringBig Data
Migrating Large Hadoop Cluster
Lessons learned from migrating a large Hadoop cluster over a single weekend -- planning, data migration with distcp, code migration of 300+ Oozie jobs, and HBase migration.
14 June 2014 · 6 min read
SbtJava
SBT in Action Summary Notes
Notes from the book SBT in Action covering Maven concepts, SBT basics, tasks, settings, plugins, and build definitions.
1 May 2014 · 8 min read
Data EngineeringBig Data
Hadoop 2.3 Centralized Cache Feature Comparison to Spark RDD
A comparison of the new HDFS centralized cache management feature in Hadoop 2.3 with Spark RDDs, and why Spark still held the edge for in-memory processing.
28 Feb 2014 · 1 min read