Amazon Elastic Map Reduce to compute recommendations with Apache Mahout

Apache Mahout is a “scalable machine learning library” which, among others, contains implementations of various single-node and distributed recommendation algorithms.…

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Amazon Free Usage Tier: Installing Tomcat 7 on an EC2 Linux instance

Amazon Web Services offers a free usage tier for 12 months that allows developers to run anything they want in…

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AWS EBS in 4 Steps

When you fire up an AWS AMI, you are given a small partition of disk space that survives reboots. For…

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Why we double down on AWS and the cloud

Blippex.org published a blog post yesterday why they moved away from AWS. In the blogpost and HN discussion we recognized…

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Set up Continuous Deployment to Amazon OpsWorks

This is a republished guest blog post by Edgars Lazdins. He is director at Novo IT – a Web Development…

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Working with Amazon Simple Queue Service using java

Amazon Simple Queue Service or SQS is a highly scalable hosted messaging queue provided by Amazon Webservice stack. Amazon SQS…

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Archiving data to AWS Glacier

For archiving your data at AWS you can use AWS Glacier. This service offers cheaper storage than the S3 service…

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Using AWS ElasticMapReduce with the Command Line Interface

In this post I am going to use the AWS MapReduce service (called ElasticMapReduce) by making use of the CLI…

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Monitoring S3 uploads for a real time data

If you are working on Big Data and its bleeding edge technologies like Hadoop etc., the primary thing you need…

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