Pragmatic Programming Techniques

We explore the Map/Reduce approach to turn sequential algorithm into parallel Map/Reduce Overview Since the "reduce" operatio...

Classification Problem Observing an instance x, determine its class. (e.g. Given a Email, determine if this is a spam). Solution Approach ...

The growth of a single CPU has been limited by physical factors such as clock rate, generated heat, power ... etc. Current trend is moving ...

Based on the same architectural pattern of the web, "REST" has a growing dominance of the SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) impl...

A classical large scale web site typically have multiple data centers in geographically distributed locations. Each data center will typical...

Database is typically the last piece of the puzzle of the scalability problem. There are some common techniques to scale the DB tire Inde...

Building scalable system is becoming a hotter and hotter topic. Mainly because more and more people are using computer these days, both the...