Kashyap Santoki

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 (memory caching) on the performance of a web application. We will observe the difference in the performance of a web application for the two scenarios: 1) No memcached on the web server and 2) Memcached enabled on the web server. Here we will not discuss on how the memcached works, I reques... (more)

Accessing Hadoop DFS for Data Storage and Retrieval Using Java

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... (more)