snowcast is an auto-configuration, distributed, scalable ID generator on top of Hazelcast [http://www.hazelcast.org]. Since snowcast is not an official Hazelcast project, Hazelcast will not offer any kind of commercial support for it, it is one of my private spare time projects! Why this project? While working on
Today I want to show how you can use nginx [http://nginx.org/] to build your own stateless loadbalancer which just redirects your requests to random servers. It does neither support sticky sessions nor does it proxy your request. It will redirect (HTTP 302) your original request to the random
APRIL'S FOOL: Sorry that I have to admit it was just an April's Fool. The interesting fact btw is that when I first came up with the idea it sounded like totally implausible but while writing I realized "hey that should actually be possible". Maybe not yet for a map-reduce
This weekend I testwise activated Spdy for HTTPS connections. So if you access the page you should see a Spdy connection and needed resources should be automatically being pushed to your browser. If you want to know more about Spdy, HTTP 2.0 and how it can speed up the
Hey there, Today I will show you how to install Ubuntu 13.10 on a Macbook Air 6.2 (the 2013 edition). Don't be affraid the post seems longer than it will take time. I made a lot of screenshots since there are a few traps you need to be