In late 2012 I wrote about the migration of our [DataSift.com's] Hadoop cluster to Arista switches but what I didn’t mention was that we also moved our real time systems over to Arista too. Within the LAN During our fact…
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Platform Performance Gains with Arista Switches
Big Data – Bigger Networking
One of the really attractive aspects of working at a start-up like DataSift is managing the challenges that come with the rapidity of organic growth. Our experiences with the networking aspects of Hadoop are an excellent example of this. When…
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Big Data Monitoring Meets a Little Android
This was originally posted on the Zenoss Community Blog. The DataSift platform consumes, processes, filters, stores and streams terabytes upon terabytes of social data to businesses around the world and we in the Operations team needed to know of any…
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I build High Availability Platforms so Cloud is not for me
Ever since someone first tried to represent the idea of packet switched network that was resilient to failure they probably used a picture of a cloud. Cisco’s official iconography for such a network is a cloud. It has been taken…
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DataSift Interaction CheatSheet #1:
A Tweet Reply
I’ve recently been working on an open source Android client for the DataSift platform and was subsequently making heavy use of our Developer Documentation site. My notes quickly became this hyperlinked cheatsheet of an example interaction that would show you…
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