Tag: ruby

Written by Knut O. Hellan

Hadoop Status Reporting from Ruby

Hadoop Map-Reduce is a great tool for analyzing and processing large amount of data. There are a few things one needs to keep in mind when working with Hadoop. This is the simple solution to one possibly annoying problem. Hadoop expects reducers to emit something regularly. If a reducer runs for a long time without […]

Written by Knut O. Hellan

Camping with CouchDB

When developing a new system, getting end-to-end functionality and being able to demonstrate it as soon as possible is important. While doing so, it’s also an added benefit if you do not spend a lot of time writing throwaway code. I have a set of scripts that let me test and use the system that […]