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Running the Largest Hadoop DFS Cluster
Hairong Kuang explains how Facebook uses HDFS to store and analyze over 100PB of user log data.
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In the Footsteps of a Giant - The Evolution of CloudStack's Architecture
Chiradeep Vittal discusses the architectural choices, dead-ends and successes that CloudStack has faced throughout its development.
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Actionable Metrics - Enabling Decision-Making in Netflix’s Decentralized Environment
Roy Rapoport discusses how Netflix uses metrics to monitor and manage their operating environment along with some notes about their event management system.
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Services as Infrastructure: Looking at Enterprise Clouds in a Different Way with Eucalyptus
Rich Wolski discusses Services as an Infrastructure" and how enterprises can architect production cloud computing environments along with deployment strategies based on Eucalyptus.
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Building Google Cloud Storage
Nathan Herring presents the available storage options at Google, the ideal characteristics of a storage service, and the actual implementation of Google Cloud Storage.
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Reinventing Rackspace: Agile-techture - Nimble Cloud Engineering
Wayne Walls discusses how Rackspace does cloud based on OpenStack, touching: open source, cloud on cloud, continuous delivery, and open API.
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Escape From Amazon: Tips/Techniques for Reducing AWS Dependencies
Soam Acharya presents a case study of a business which relied heavily on AWS and had to reduce its dependencies on it, including tips for avoiding cloud lock-in.
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How Percona Helps MySQL Succeed in the Cloud
Koa McCullough presents best practices for running Percona Server and MySQL in the cloud, cloud backups using EBS, Xtrabackup and S3, using Percona Toolkit to simplify operations, and XtraDB Cluster.
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Petabyte Scale Data at Facebook
Dhruba Borthakur discusses the different types of data used by Facebook and how they are stored, including graph data, semi-OLTP data, immutable data for pictures, and Hadoop/Hive for analytics.