March 2015

There were 2 posts published in March 2015 (this is page 1 of 1).

Treat your Hadoop nodes like cattle

I’ve built compute clusters of various sizes, from hundreds to tens of thousands of systems, for almost two decades now.  One of the things I learned early on is that, for compute clusters, you want to treat each system as cookie cutter as possible.  By that, I mean there should be a minimal set of differences […]

Verify Hadoop Cluster node health with Serverspec

One of the biggest challenges I have running Hadoop clusters is constantly validating that the health and well-being of the cluster meets my standards for operation.  Hadoop, like any large software ecosystem, is composed of many layers of technologies, starting from the physical machine, up into the operating system kernel, the distributed filesystem layer, the […]