Sometime back I reviewed “OpenShift Cookbook” written by my friend Shekhar Gulati.I am tempted to write about it because it is a great cookbook which is aimed at people with no particular background. Openshift as a technology is not just for the enterprise but it is also for the developer if (s)he is learning new things or trying to build something for fun. (more…)
If you are doing good business then you need to be prepared for scaling your services. Stateless services are easy to scale, but if there are state-full ones then you need to think sometime before you start trying to scale. Now we had one service that was building state on its local disc, like a invoice generation service where your customers can generate invoices for their customers in all kind of formats eg PDF, Excel etc. While it was easy to vertically scale the service, just shutdown the EC2 instance, change the type and start-up, but there is a ceiling to it. How can we scale such a service horizontally without rewriting our component ? (more…)
Docker is a great tool for experimenting and learning. If you haven’t tried it till now then do give it try ! You can play with-in it without messing your own system. We can also built limitations for the container so that the host does not have any major impact in case the container goes berserk. While it was easy to put limitations for memory and CPU utilization, last few days I spend major amount of time in figuring out ‘how to handle a fork bomb ?’ (more…)
Few days back Apache Hadoop Development Tools a.k.a. HDT was released. The projects aims at bringing plugins in eclipse to simplify development on Hadoop platform. This blog aims to provide an overview of few great features of HDT.
The project can act as a single endpoint for your HDFS, Zookeeper and MR Cluster. You can connect to your HDFS/Zookeeper instance and browse or add more data. You can submit jobs to MR cluster and see status of all the running jobs. (more…)
Recently I started working with team on a Eclipse plugin. The team had developed an awesome plugin that does the intended purpose. Thus I checkout the source and tried building it. The project source contained all the required libraries and it could only be build in Eclipse. In today’s world of continuous delivery, this is a major impediment as such a project can not be built on Jenkins. (more…)
