Category Archives: cloud computing

Atbrox @ O’Reilly Strata Conference in London

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Amund Tveit

Atbrox is participating and holding a Hadoop/Mapreduce algorithm related presentation at the O’Reilly Strata Conference in London October 1st and 2nd. If you are there and would like to meet Atbrox send an email to info@atbrox.com

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Main takeaways from Accel’s Big Data Conference

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Amund Tveit

Attended Accel Partners Big Data conference last week. It was a good event with many interesting people, a very crude estimate of distribution: 1/3 VCs/investors, 1/3 startup tech people, 1/3 big corp tech people. My personal 2 key takeaways from … Continue reading →

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atbr now has Apache Thrift support

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Amund Tveit

atbr (large-scale and low-latency in-memory key-value pair store) now supports Apache Thrift for easier integration with other Hadoop services. Thrift Example Checkout and install atbr Prerequisite Install/compile Apache Thrift – http://thrift.apache.org/ Compile a atbr thrift server and connect using python … Continue reading →

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atbr – supports websocket-based sharding

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Amund Tveit

atbr (large-scale and low-latency in-memory key-value pair store) now supports websocket-based sharding for parallel deployments. Websocket Sharding Example Checkout and install atbr Start 3 servers loaded with data Start shard server talking to shards Connect to shard server and lookup … Continue reading →

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atbr – large-scale in-memory hashtables (in Python)

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Amund Tveit

Large-scale in-memory key-value stores are universally useful (e.g. to load and serve tsv-data created by hadoop/mapreduce jobs), in-memory key-value stores have low latency, and modern boxes have lots of memory (e.g. EC2 intances with 70GB RAM). If you look closely … Continue reading →

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