This document outlines how to test scratch builds of Tomcat for Fedora Rawhide. It is pretty basic, but the steps below allow you to go from scratch-build to installed RPMs pretty quickly. These same steps apply to any other Fedora package as well. Building First, you need to initiate a scratch-build for your package and … Continue reading How to install and test RPMs from a koji scratch-build
Building the tomcat RPMs locally with rpmbuild
Ever wondered how to build the tomcat RPM locally? Well you're in luck! This post will detail how to build the tomcat RPM locally using rpmbuild and the Fedora tomcat package. This method will also work for any other Fedora package. Step 1: Clone the package repository In order to get started you need two … Continue reading Building the tomcat RPMs locally with rpmbuild
Getting started with Embedded Tomcat
The purpose of this post is to help you get started with embedded Tomcat, and will cover the following: Starting a new Mavenized Tomcat project Deploy a simple servlet to the embedded Tomcat process Create a Tomcat Maven Project TL;DR All of the sources for this example project are available on GitHub here. The first … Continue reading Getting started with Embedded Tomcat
Exploring Amazon AWS – Documentation links
I just wanted to capture some of the observations and documentation that I think are useful for continued exploration of AWS (specifically S3, EMR, and Redshift). Here are some notes broken up by service that I think may aid others in their research... Simple Storage Service (S3) S3 is pretty simple and very easy to … Continue reading Exploring Amazon AWS – Documentation links
Amazon Web Services S3 Review
Purpose To review Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 in order to understand the service better. Questions/Statements to research Below are a few questions/statements that I am interested in knowing more about regarding S3. I will spend some time researching each topic and document things that I find interesting about them. Security (Encryption) options for S3 … Continue reading Amazon Web Services S3 Review
EMR Experimentation with web logs
Purpose This post is to document the work that I am doing with the AWS Elastic MapReduce (EMR) tool. I will be recording some benchmarks and general notes about my experience with EMR. The Test Data I took the example web logs set from the analyzing web log data tutorial (found here) and cloned it … Continue reading EMR Experimentation with web logs
JBoss Data Virtualization 6 Implementation Notes
Purpose I am writing this post to document some notes about my experience while developing a virtual database on JBoss Data Virtualization 6. This post is a collection of notes that expand on my experience documented in this post. These are some things broken apart into sections that I thought were noteworthy. My Environment Dell … Continue reading JBoss Data Virtualization 6 Implementation Notes
Data Virtualization with JBoss
Purpose I am writing this post to document some of the issues that I encountered while working with JBoss Data Virtualization 6 (Beta). It has been a very interesting week working on this, but I feel that I have a good understanding of all of the pieces and parts in play here. I have developed … Continue reading Data Virtualization with JBoss
Using Apache Flume for log ingress?
I wanted to evaluate Apache Flume for the ingress of some web server access logs to get a feel for how Apache Flume works. In this post I will go over some of the things that I found out about Apache Flume, as well as a few examples of situations in which it would be … Continue reading Using Apache Flume for log ingress?
Data Virtualization Cache notes
Here are some notes on Data Virtualization server caching. When to use caching: Query performance Load optimization - to minimize load on the underlying system. Consistent reporting Source availability Complex transformations Security - to allow users to see aggregate data and still keep them from the ability to access detailed data. Where to keep the … Continue reading Data Virtualization Cache notes