Video from my Cloud Computing seminar

This week I gave the same seminar regarding “What is Cloud Computing” in both Stockholm and Göteborg, here in Sweden. You can watch the video from the Stockholm event. The speech language is in Swedish and the length is around one and a half hour. The video format is Adobe Flash, so you need a proper flash-plugin. Cloud Computing Seminar – 12 May 2009 – Stockholm/Sweden Watch the video (requires…
Read more...Comparison of decompress ways in Hadoop

I have recently made some programming using Hadoop, which is a framework for massive data processing over many numbers of servers. Hadoop reads input data from (large) files and performs MapReduce data reductions. One method of reading is input is decompressing GZIP:ed files. Java has built-in support for reading gzipped stream using GZIPInputStream. However, Hadoop ships with its own implementation that uses native libraries for efficiency. I was curious about…
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