Here are some helpful resources if you are looking to learn Python. Google I/O 2008 – Painless Python Part 1 of 2 Google I/O 2008 – Painless Python Part 2 of 2 Dive Into Python (excellent reference)
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First, some review Hadoop is a very powerful MapReduce framework based on a white paper released by Google documenting how they have successfully tackled the issue of processing large amounts of data (on the scale of petabytes in many cases) using their proprietary distributed filesystem, GFS. Hadoop is the open […]
Using Python with Hadoop
Recently my wife and I decided to try and wrangle our images into some sort of logical order for easy accessibility. After some thought we decided on a simple system of image-directory/year/month for our images and since our old images were spread out across several folders in no particular order […]
Quick and dirty image sorting script
Recently I’ve been studying several technologies that appear to form the core of cloud computing. In short, these are the technologies behind such technological marvels as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, NetFlix, Pixar, etc.1 Since each of these technologies by themselves is worthy of a new book, and since even those […]