Author Archives: Amund Tveit

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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Monodroid with Sencha Touch for App Development

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Amund Tveit

Selecting development tools for an app depend on several criteria, e.g. Should the app run on multiple mobile/tablet/pad platforms? (e.g. Android, iOS, Windows 8 etc.) Access to native features Is the UI “game like” (e.g. custom graphics) or “business like” … Continue reading →

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