7 Tips for Improving MapReduce Performance | Cloudera Engineering Blog
Good advice for Hadoop optimization
(tags: hadoop performance optimization cloudera map-reduce ops)
AWS re:Invent 2014 Video & Slide Presentation Links
Nice work by Andrew Spyker — this should be an official feature of the re:Invent website, really
(tags: reinvent aws conferences talks slides ec2 s3 ops presentations)
(SDD416) Amazon EBS Deep Dive | AWS re:Invent 2014
Excellent data on current EBS performance characteristics
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A desktop app for finding and inserting GIFs into any conversation
Oh yes.(tags: animated gif search pictures slack ani-gif via:bwalsh)
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The researchers have no doubt that Regin is a nation-state tool and are calling it the most sophisticated espionage machine uncovered to date—more complex even than the massive Flame platform, uncovered by Kaspersky and Symantec in 2012 and crafted by the same team who created Stuxnet. “In the world of malware threats, only a few rare examples can truly be considered groundbreaking and almost peerless,” writes Symantec in its report about Regin. Though no one is willing to speculate on the record about Regin’s source, news reports about the Belgacom and Quisquater hacks pointed a finger at GCHQ and the NSA. Kaspersky confirms that Quisqater was infected with Regin, and other researchers familiar with the Belgacom attack have told WIRED that the description of Regin fits the malware that targeted the telecom, though the malicious files used in that attack were given a different name, based on something investigators found inside the platform’s main file.
(tags: regin malware security hacking exploits nsa gchq symantec espionage)
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Charted is a tool for automatically visualizing data, created by the Product Science team at Medium. Give it the link to a data file and Charted returns a beautiful, shareable chart of the data.
Nice, but it’s no graphite — pretty basic.