Kashyap Santoki

Distributed File Systems (DFS) are a new type of file systems which provides some extra features over normal file systems and are used for storing and sharing files across wide area network and provide easy programmatic access. File Systems like HDFS from Hadoop and many others falls in the category of distributed file systems and has been widely used and are quite popular. This tutorial provides a step by step guide for accessing and using distributed file system for storing and retrieving data using j\Java. Hadoop Distributed File System has been used for this tutorial because it is freely available, easy to setup and is one of the most popular and well known Distributed file system. The tutorial demonstrates how to access Hadoop distributed file system using java showing all the basic operations. Introduction Distributed File Systems (DFS) are a new type of file syst... (more)

The Impact of Memcached on the Performance of Web Applications

In today’s highly competitive and fast era, it is necessary for a Web application owner to ensure that their web site performs well in order to increase the number of users accessing their site and thus increasing their business. If a site is taking too long to respond, then users will stop using the site and find other alternate sites that are performing well, ultimately a loss for the web application owner. There are various techniques and designs that can be used to improve the performance of a web application. In this article we will focus only on the impact of the memcached... (more)