I/O Demystified

With all the hype on highly scalable server design and the rage behind nodejs I have been meaning to do some…

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JMX : Some Introductory Notes

JMX (Java Management Extensions) is a J2SE technology which enables management and monitoring of Java applications. The basic idea is…

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So you are a programmer…

Been there. Done that. And suffered for that… Programming is fun. But there are some other associated stuff we programmers…

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Learn by Errors : Java + OSGi

Recently I worked on getting Apache Hive work inside an OSGi environment. While not proving to be a proverbial piece…

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Joins with Map Reduce

I have been reading on Join implementations available for Hadoop for past few days. In this post I recap some…

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Monitoring : Making sense of the buzz word jungle

Nowadays we are constantly reminded of the virtues of being proactive or more colloquially put “Being one step ahead of…

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SSH Tunneling Explained

Recently I wanted to set up a remote desktop sharing session from home pc to my laptop. While going through…

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Apache Thrift Quickstart Tutorial

Thrift is a cross language RPC framework initially developed at Facebook, now open sourced as an Apache project. This post…

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