The Challenge At BluePI we do a lot of performance re-engineering projects. Some of them involve tuning the application code, some the architecture, however frequently it is the database that is the bottleneck. One peculiar situation we encountered...

Scenario You may have encountered situations, when you need to send huge amount of data (in GBs ) to the server.  One example is upload of large files. While sending this data, your server has to slog through the upcoming mighty request body and ev...

Recently while working on a project at BluePi we encountered a situation where we needed something like a join in a Map-Reduce job running on Hadoop. In this post I am going to talk about how we can implement a Join in Hadoop Map-Reduce. There may be...

In my last post I talked about the basic concepts and an introduction to the Actors model for concurrency, let's put Actors into action and try to solve a multithreaded producer consumer problem using Akka. The problem I have picked for this post is...

The next big challenge in the modern software development is writing concurrent, distributed and scalable programs. Algorithms that can cut down tasks in parallel and offer a greater throughput. The current shared memory model of Java concurrency off...