This article: Describes a poor customer experience created by poorly implemented distributed systems. Illustrates the complexity and interconnectedness of the multiple business entities that participate in a single retail transaction. 1140 words, estimated reading...
Consistency and Timeliness of Data in Distributed Computing Introduction This story uses an example of dynamic pricing in the low-cost airlines ticketing industry to show how the consistency and timeliness of data is an essential component of a concurrent system. I’ll...
Introduction This article is about Big Data and Distributed Computing. My goal is to give you the vocabulary to discuss Big Data outcomes in terms of effective Distributed Computing execution, data integrity, and performance bottlenecks. Distributed computing is the...
How I began learning Apache Spark in Java Introduction This is the first of three articles sharing my experience learning Apache Spark. Here I will go over the QuickStart Tutorial and JavaWordCount Example, including some of the setup, fixes and resources....
