The best way to understand MapReduce is to actually see & feel it in action. Following is the simplest possible example I could cook… (Gist link) var Job = { data : [ "We are glad to see you here. This site is dedicated to", [...]
During the past year – working at AdoMado, I’ve seen myself & our developers wasting a lot of time in maintaining their own dev machines. Package install/upgrade/dependency failures, OS upgrade failures, hard drives failures, the machine not being available physically (in case of laptops), etc – are just a few cases. Can there be a more [...]
Get adomado.com funded! This year, there are no multitude of objectives, just this one. The more focus I have, the better I can deliver.
The past few years have been a complete roller-coaster ride! With each passing year – I was getting closer to my ultimate objective. 2007 – This was the time when SammyTammy, Sandy and I teamed up to kickstart our entrepreneurial stint with ApnaBill.com 2008 – We brought ApnaBill.com into existence. Jan 28 was when we hit the 400 mark for [...]
Faster HTML and CSS: Layout Engine Internals for Web Developers (@GoogleTechTalks) I think I never cared about these – but the way David Baron from Mozilla describes these, I think I will now. The points he was making started seeming so crucial that I jotted them down as if taking notes – something I never [...]
Ever since we implemented content filtering mechanisms at AdoMado, our own site was being blocked – and this made me heck curious – why?? Today morning, using Rubular (which is an excellent online regex tool) – I discovered the culprit. And it couldn’t have been more hilarious ) Fixing this… ) PS – a valid [...]
Backups are worth in GOLD when you need them. I simply cannot stress on the fact that if you are running a production web application and you are not backing up your critical data – you are bound to shoot yourself in the foot – sooner or later. Something similar happened to us when we [...]
We had to answer this question yesterday when our EC2 instance stopped responding and was constantly showing 100% CPU load. SSH wasn’t working and neither was apache responding. The CPU was hung at 100% load for a full day. Hence, we decided that a reboot was the only solution. I had a notion (and had [...]
So after much a long time, I am back to spending time reading, again. I’m not a voracious reader – but I do have a few select titles which I always wanted to read. And while watching David Heinemeier Hansson interviewing Timothy Ferris, I realized that I do need to push “The 4 hour work [...]
Dreams – and – Newton’s Laws of Motion Most of us have had dreams when we were still in college… with Microsoft, Google, Dotcoms, etc being our prime idols. Build something big, sell it off, make those quick millions – and – reiterate. However, when the actual time comes, the typical lifecycle an engineering graduate [...]