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Multiple computers working together, using a network to communicate

Horizontal vs Vertical Fragmentation in Distributed Database Management Systems (DDBMS)

In the context in DDBMS, what is the difference between Vertical Fragmentation and Horizontal Fragmentation? Is it such that the …

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How to copy a local Git branch to a remote repo

I've taken the following steps so far: Cloned a remote Git repo Branched the master branch to an experimental edited/…

git version-control distributed
Web Services vs EJB vs RMI, advantages and disadvantages?

My web server would be overloaded quickly if all the work were done there. I'm going to stand up a …

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Search/Find a file and file content in Hadoop

I am currently working on a project using Hadoop DFS. I notice there is no search or find command in …

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Real World Use of Zookeeper

I've been looking at Zookeeper recently and wondered whether anybody was using it currently and what they were specifically using …

java configuration apache-zookeeper distributed
.net service bus recommendations?

We are in need of a distributed architecture messaging system/service bus with the capability of Publish/Subscribe. Does anyone …

c# .net distributed messaging servicebus
In Apache Kafka why can't there be more consumer instances than partitions?

I'm learning about Kafka, reading the introduction section here https://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#introduction specifically the portion about …

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Best way to aggregate multiple log files from several servers

I need a simple way to monitor multiple text log files distributed over a number of HP-UX servers. They are …

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In C#, if 2 processes are reading and writing to the same file, what is the best way to avoid process locking exceptions?

With the following file reading code: using (FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.None)) { using (TextReader …

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alternative to memcached that can persist to disk

I am currently using memcached with my java app, and overall it's working great. The features of memcached that are …

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