Category Archives: Storage

Redis and CentOS 7

Posted on October 21, 2017 by James Briggs

Redis is a feature-packed cache that’s easy to install and work with. Here’s some notes on installing and using Redis with CentOS 7. Install available redis package from your available yum repos: # yum install redis # systemctl enable redis … Continue reading →

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Solr Meetup at Cloudera in Palo Alto

Posted on July 13, 2017 by James Briggs

Cloudera hosted another Solr Meetup at their office in Palo Alto. About 30 people attended. Two software engineers from Cloudera did presentations tonite: 1) Michael Sun talked about his nitely Solr microbenchmark and cluster benchmarks. Solr Nightly Benchmarks (SOLR-10317) 2) … Continue reading →

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Distributed Systems Laws Applied to Distributed Databases

Posted on July 12, 2017 by James Briggs

Avery’s Law of Distributed Systems Reliability: “Distributed systems are more reliable when you can get a service from one node OR another. They get less reliable when a service depends on one node AND another. And the numbers combine multiplicatively, … Continue reading →

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Redis Conference 2017

Posted on June 1, 2017 by James Briggs

I went to RedisConf 2017 Wed. and Thu. at the Marriott Marquis in SF hosted by RedisLabs. About 2,000 people showed up – initially surprising to me, but then Redis is more than a key-value store. Kudos to RedisLabs for … Continue reading →

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Storage: Erasure Encoding Acceleration with Intel CPUs

Posted on December 4, 2016 by James Briggs

There’s basically 3 ways to store online data, where “storage” includes block and/or network locations: filesystems on top of blocks (zfs, xfs, ext4) object stores across storage (OpenStack Swift, Backblaze, S3) files erasure-encoded across storage networks (CleverSafe) CleverSafe struggled along … Continue reading →

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