Tapping Big Data for Increased Agility and Competitiveness The stupendous growth of data volumes in recent years has been behind the rise of the phenomenon of big data, which has presented new challenges as well as new opportunities for business enterprises. Organizations can take advantage of the big data environme...
Automate Configuration Management with Chef In the previous blog we saw how we can automate the deployment of Play framework applications using Chef, in this piece let’s focus on automating Configuration Management for Play Framework applications using Chef. There are a few steps involved in making the configurati...
Automating Play Applications Deployment using Chef Extreme Programming goes hand in hand with the Scrum practices that we follow in the modern software development. The promises made by implementing Scrum can only be fulfilled if we follow the development practices that compliment it. Extreme Programming or XP pract...
SQL Server vs MYSQL case study 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 was when one of our customers bemoane...
Implementing Join in Hadoop Map-Reduce 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 a lot of scenarios in real ...
