ibketama is a consistent hashing library written in C. You supply a list of servers and ketama will map keys to servers in a consistent way, even after adding or removing servers from the list.

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Dumbo is a Python module that allows you to easily write and run Hadoop streaming programs

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Armstrong’s book and a lot of other online tutorials show you how to start/stop simple Erlang programs from within an Erlang shell. But what they don’t tell you is how to run daemons non-interactively without using the shell and I only figured this out after searching for a while in the Erlang mailing list.

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Scribe is a newly released log collection tool that dumps log files from various nodes in a cluster to Scribe servers, where the logs are stored for further use.

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The paper highlights the challenges of trying to do distributed agile development, along with recommendations for addressing these challenges, based primarily on the experiences of teams within the patterns and practices group at Microsoft.

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Chukwa is an open source data collection system for monitoring and analyzing large distributed systems. Chukwa is built on top of the Hadoop distributed filesystem (HDFS) and MapReduce framework and inherits Hadoop’s scalability and robustness. Chukwa also includes a flexible and powerful toolkit for displaying monitoring and analysis results, in order to make the best use of this collected data.

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SMR, which provides a wrapper around Hadoop to make everything much more Scala-like.

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In this collection, you’ll see 40 beautiful, free icon sets that you can use in a variety of ways (websites and/or your desktop). In total, you’ll find close to 3000 invidual icons showcased in this article.

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A XMPP-to-MUD/Moo/Talker/telnet systems

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