Archive For December 3, 2008
Michael Manos yesterday published Our Vision for Generation 4 Modular Data Centers – One Way of Getting it Just Right. In this posting, Mike goes through the next generation modular data center designs for Microsoft. Things are moving quickly. I first argued for modular designs in a Conference on Innovative Data Systems paper submitted in…
Ed Lazowska of University of Washington invited me in speak to his CSE 490H class. This is a great class that teaches distributed systems in general and the programming assignments are MapReduce workloads using Hadoop. I covered two major topics, the first on high scale service best practices. How to design, develop, and efficiently operate…