Recent Posts

Testing Hadoop - Starting HBase

less than 1 minute read

Hbase configuration and running is very similar to hadoops. Not surprisingly , they also have a nice Getting Started page. The tricky part , though , is to u...

Testing Hadoop - Starting Hadoop

1 minute read

First thing : It works. If you’re getting a lot error messages and you start thinking “well , maybe it’s crap. still 0.18 can’t be that good a version” Stop...

Testing Hadoop - Problem Definition

1 minute read

We have a very large amount of relatively small files (~5k avg , 41k max , 0k min) , that we access a lot (20M times a day) for various computations. Current...