Tag Archives: Databases

Cloud Computing

By ivanov | Published: May 1, 2008

Although I wanted to post more I didn’t have the time to blog on some hot topics in the last two weeks.Cloud Computing is one of the new terms flying around the Net.I came across a post from Joseph Kent Langley explaining pretty good what being in the clouds is all about: Cloud Computing (Figure [...]

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Internet-Scale Services

By ivanov | Published: March 26, 2008

Every now and then, I like to spend some time on reading articles and papers about developing and administrating database information systems.Today I came across the Lisa conference (Large Installation System Administration) and particularly on the paper On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services where you can read a bunch of important advices on how to [...]

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The Bigtable behind Google

By ivanov | Published: February 12, 2008

Google are developing their own distributed storage system which has really interesting structure.It is described in the paper: Abstract “Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. Many projects at Google store [...]

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