Joe Stump is currently the Lead Architect for Digg where he spends his time partitioning data, creating internal services, and ensuring the code frameworks are in working order.
Digg by the number
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Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, explained clearly why the Cloud is used to build highly-efficient systems.
"By using infrastructure as a service, basic IT costs are moved from a capital expense
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Hypertable is an open source project to develop massively parallel high performance database platform. Its architecture more or less follows Google's bigtable design.
The project goal is to bring
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The TIPC project is an Open Source implementation of the Transparent Inter Process Communication (TIPC) protocol. TIPC is designed for use in clustered computer environments, allowing designers to cr
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OpenSAF is an open source project established to develop a base platform middleware consistent with Service Availability™ Forum (SA Forum™) specifications, under the LGPLv2.1 license. The OpenSAF Fou
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We describe our experiences with the Chubby lock service, which is intended to provide coarse-grained locking as well as reliable (though low-volume) storage for a loosely-coupled distributed system.
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Honeybees somehow manage to efficiently collect a lot of nectar with limited resources and no central command — after all, the queen bee is too busy laying eggs to oversee something as mundane as whe
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What Drives Performance in HPC? That's a good question. What does drive performance in HPC? On a qualitative basis its easy to answer. A faster proce
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