#firstpost on the newly implemented Ghost blog.If you're curious, I'm self hosting on a Digital Ocean Droplet from here.

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

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

The purpose of this post is to help you get started with embedded Tomcat, and will cover the following:Starting a new Mavenized Tomcat projectDeploy a simple servlet to the embedded Tomcat processCreate

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

PurposeTo review Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 in order to understand the service better.Questions/Statements to researchBelow are a few questions/statements that I am interested in knowing more about regarding S3.

PurposeThis 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

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

When to use caching:Query performanceLoad optimization – to minimize load on the underlying system.Consistent reportingSource availabilityComplex transformationsSecurity – to allow users to see aggregate data and still keep them from the ability to

PurposeThis post is meant to capture my notes on research, testing, and recommendations of differing Elastic MapReduce (EMR) programming approaches (languages/architectures) for a list of use cases.Sample use cases to researchHere

PurposeIn this blog post, I have captured the work I did in setting up a small (four node) Apache Hadoop cluster and have documented it in a manner that makes it easy to

PurposeIn this post I have captured my work configuring Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) for use with Hadoop. It is formatted as a tutorial on how to setup PDI 4.4 with Hadoop 1.

PurposeI 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

PurposeI 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

PurposeThe purpose of this post is to capture notes on the S3 cloning/replication experiment that I am going through. I am using a public AWS dataset (Million Song Dataset found here). The

I wanted to document some of the talks that I attended at the first All Things Open conference with a quick post. This was the first conference that I had the pleasure of