Last Monday took place in Barcelona the first CloudCamp ever done in the city. Altough I was expecting more technical stuff it was good to be there and listen to what people have to say.
The first part of the event consisted of some quick explanations from different companies related with cloud computing. Basically, were explaining [...]
Tags: Abicloud, Cloud computing, CloudCamp, Events, Hadoop, MySQL, Open source, Sqoop
Last week I had the chance to go to the ApacheCon Europe 2009. The event took place in Mövenpick Hotel, Amsterdam. I had a really good time in there.
Was good to share use cases and experiences in person with people who I had just spoken with in forums.
I spend the first two days in the [...]
Tags: ApacheCon, Events, Hadoop, HBase, Lucene, Mahout, Open source, Pig
Here is a really interesting example of how to build an inverted index using Pig. As I have seen in Hadoop, to create a Lucene index you must start from a text file and use MapReduce jobs to build it. Pig however, allows you to retrieve data not just from a text file but from [...]
Recently I read an article explaining how Rackspace solved their huge log data deal with problem. They have implemented the best Hadoop and Solr integration I have seen until now, it really looks amazing.
I don’t know hadoop with detail but to run Solr instances from a Tomcat server stored in HDFS (Hadoop’s distributed file system) [...]