Category Archives: Cloud

NoSQL at Twitter presentation

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Kon

Man these guys are smart.  http://www.slideshare.net/kevinweil/nosql-at-twitter-nosql-eu-2010 Talks about Twitters many different approaches to storage (Hadoop, Cassandra, FlockDB) and the tools used in querying of that data to answer questions (Pig)

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Building Java Applications with Windows Azure

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Kon

Looking for a place to host my own home grown apps, I came across an interesting presentation about using Windows Azure cloud to run Tomcat and a JVM in the Microsoft cloud solution. See Building Java Applications with Windows Azure … Continue reading →

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Chuffed

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Kon

I just deployed my first Grails app running with PostgreSQL on MorphExchange. Following their Java Dev Cookbook was quite easy though I found I had to do the following: Under log4j configuration add a property logs.home = ”./logs” (here) Don’t … Continue reading →

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