Difficulty level 4 of 5: Advanced
Today I’m reading about the PNUTS distributed database that was developed by Yahoo. I’m giving the PNUTS paper pass 1:3, and reading some background material I found on highscalability about the database. The paper: PNUTS: Yahoo!’s Hosted Data Serving Platform…
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Below are four different (partially overlapping) lists of papers one should read in distributed systems. Dan Creswell: A Distributed Systems Reading List Swami Sivasubramanian: Building scalable systems Dr. Manish Parashar: Parallel and Distributed Computing Bytepawn: Readings in distributed systems (currently…
I’ve always wanted to understand Turing Machines better. I believe that the best understanding comes from the intuition developed by solving puzzles. So here, I give myself some challenges. Solve simple problems by writing programs for a simple Turing Machine,…
Here are three thorough answers on Python topics from StackOverflow. Metaclasses Yield, iterables, iterators, generators Decorators
This is a good post showing how “perrygeo” uses Cython to speed up a pure Python function. The comments also discuss alternatives and options: Using psyco instead of Cython Using optimization flags for gcc Using xxx instead of math.xxx
Warning: This is a description of how to create a OpenStreetMap WMS with GeoServer. It works fine up to the point where the layers published as an unstyled WMS. This is where I’ve not been able to produce a good…
Here I have captured a thought process I had while reading about algorithms for hard graph problems. The thoughts are inspired by MapReduce, distributed merge sort and the more colorful newspapers of the world. Summary of thoughts Given an instance…