We have previously provided a Quickstart guide to standing up Rackspace cloud
servers (and have one for Amazon servers as well). These are very low cost
ways of building reliable, production ready capabilities for enterprise use
(commercial and government). And Bryan Halfpap has provided a Quickstart
guide which shows you how to build a Hadoop Cluster (leveraging Cloudera’s
CDH3). Using Bryan’s guide you can have a Hadoop Cluster up and running
in under 20 minutes.
With this post we would like to provide you with some additional tips that
flow from these other posts. We will show you how to build clusters even
faster using another common tool in community use, Whirr.
What is Whirr? Apache Whirr is a set of libraries for running cloud
services. Here is more from http://whirr.apache.org/
Whirr provides:
A cloud-neutral way to run services. You don’t have to worry a... (more)
Pluggable M3 (Monitis Monitor Manager) Framework
Who needs an introduction about M3? – Perhaps no one!
After gaining some reputation with M3, providing extra-easy integration of
any monitor into Monitis it was time to take it to the next level.
Generally speaking, the work flow of M3 was described in detail in this
article.
After some thought and design, we’ve decided it’d be best if M3 was
pluggable. Pluggable in terms of being able to easily add execution and
parsing plugins.
The interface and behavior of M3 stayed exactly the same, however now it is
much easier to obtain data f... (more)
Visual Studio 11 adds a new feature that makes working with Silverlight in
SharePoint 2010 a bit easier. The new Silverlight Web Part feature
automates deploying your Silverlight applications to SharePoint and can
really save you a bit of time. We took a look at how the Visual Web Part
works in VS11 a while back. Now, let’s see what happens when we use
Silverlight.
To work with Silverlight,you can either create a new project or simply add a
new item to an existing project. I’ll start by creating a new project by
choosing the item SharePoint 2010 Silverlight Web Part. Remem... (more)
The Internet is a great resource, but it is sometimes too much to wade
through hundreds of web pages looking for tips about using Tomcat with a
database. So we at Monitis have done it for you! Below are some of the more
useful tips found in various places on the Internet.
Tip #1 – Don’t Ignore Database Performance
Webapps typically use databases. So, you have to tune the webapp along with
the database if you want optimal performance. Take our advice. Performance
test the database and define an appropriate database connection pool
(maxActive, maxIdle, and maxWait in the Resource e... (more)
The HR-XML Consortium has recertified testing and assessment technologies and
services provider Questionmark as conforming to the Consortium’s open data
exchange standards.
Conformance to standards can help employers achieve smoother integrations
between Questionmark® assessments and core HR systems, ultimately making it
faster and easier for HR managers to perform essential tasks such as
scheduling assessments or accessing results. By using a standard exchange
format based on the industry standard XML, companies can use the best of
breed systems from multiple suppliers and not ... (more)