Posts by Jakob Homan

It's not easy to quickly gather all the data that goes into a LinkedIn page view, particularly for something like our home page. LinkedIn benefits from a very distributed service-oriented architecture for assembling pages as quickly possible while still being resilient to failures from any particular bit of content. Each bit that ends up on the page is provided...

I am excited to announce that the first release of Apache Giraph has been approved by Giraph and the Apache Incubator's PMCs. Giraph is an implementation of Google's Pregel model for large-scale graph computation that is rapidly being developed within the Apache Software Foundation. Check out the Giraph 0.1 SVN tag and .tar.gz download! With this release, Giraph...