What’s new in Java 8 – Date API

With the final release of Java 8 around the corner, one of the new features I’m excited about is the…

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MapReduce Algorithms – Understanding Data Joins Part II

It’s been awhile since I last posted, and like last time I took a big break, I was taking some…

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Fine-Grained Concurrency with the Guava Striped Class

This post is going to cover how to use the Striped class from Guava to achieve finer-grained concurrency. The ConcurrentHashMap…

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Configuring Hadoop with Guava MapSplitters

In this post we are going to provide a new twist on passing configuration parameters to a Hadoop Mapper via…

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MapReduce Algorithms – Understanding Data Joins Part 1

In this post we continue with our series of implementing the algorithms found in the Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce…

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MapReduce Algorithms – Secondary Sorting

We continue with our series on implementing MapReduce algorithms found in Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce book. Other posts in…

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MapReduce Algorithms – Order Inversion

This post is another segment in the series presenting MapReduce algorithms as found in the Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce…

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Google Guava BloomFilter

When the Guava project released version 11.0, one of the new additions was the BloomFilter class. A BloomFilter is a…

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Google Guava EventBus and Java 7 WatchService for Event Programming

This post is going to cover using the Guava EventBus to publish changes to a directory or sub-directories detected by…

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