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A few years ago, installing PHP libraries was a nightmare. The first issue was that you either found framework agnostic code, or you found just plain old classes all bound

Ansible is a tool that allows you to control remote servers from the comfort of your laptop. It works over SSH and doesn’t require any special software or agent to

Vagrant allows you to easily manage and control multiple virtual machines. It is built on top of VirtualBox and VMWare and it provides many exciting capabilities. You can create isolated

Overview Apache Hive is an integral part of Hadoop eco-system. Hive can be defined as a data warehouse-like software that facilitates query and large data management on HDFS (Hadoop distributed

Design patterns are common in almost all levels of software development and are nothing more than proven and tested design techniques used to solve business problems. MapReduce is no different

Apache Mahout is an open source project from the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) with the primary goal of creating a machine learning algorithm. Introduced by a group of developers from

Learn more about how the HDFS Federation helps to enhance an existing HDFS architecture and how it provides a clear separation between namespace and storage, enabling scalability and isolation at

Introduction Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is one of many Open Web Application Security Program (OWASP) products pertaining to software security. OWASP is non-profit organization this is focused on spreading information

Since Hadoop version 0.23, MapReduce has changed significantly. It is now known as MapReduce 2.0 or YARN. MapReduce 2.0 is based on the concept of splitting the two major functionalities