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“Easily” setup a monitored Hadoop / Hive Cluster in EC2 with PoolParty

Summary Setting up a scalable Hadoop cluster isn’t easy, but PoolParty makes it easier and manageable. By the time we’re done with this tutorial you’ll have a Hadoop cluster consisting of one master node and two slaves. The slaves are formatted with HDFS and process MapReduce jobs that are delegated to them from the master. The whole [...]
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PoolParty MRTG Plugin

I’ve created a PoolParty plugin that makes it dead-simple to install
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Getting Started with PoolParty and EC2

Today I gave a presentation and workshop titled “Getting Started with PoolParty and EC2″. The goal was to 1) be an introduction to the myriad of terms used in Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure and to 2) be a practical introduction to PoolParty configuration and provisioning. Posted below are the slides. The slides alone certainly are not [...]
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