I am very happy to announce that Google's MapReduce is now available for Ruby (via
gem install starfish). MapReduce is the technique used by Google to do monstrous distributed programming over 30 terabyte files. I have been reading about MapReduce recently and thought that it was very exciting for Google to have laid out the ideas that ran Google. I also wondered how they could be applied to everyday applications.Recently, I gave a talk on Ridiculously easy ways to distribute processor intensive tasks using Rinda and DRb. This talk came from my work with Rinda recently at MOG. We use distributed programming to handle real-time processor intensive nee





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