Monthly Archives - May 2017

Apache Kafka, The next Generation Distributed Messaging System

In Big Data project, the main challenge is to collect an enormous volume of data. We need distributed high throughput messaging systems to overcome it. Apache Kafka is designed to address the challenge. It was originally developed at LinkedIn Corporation and later on became a part of Apache project. A Messaging System is typically responsible for transferring data from one application to another. A message is nothing but the bunch of data/information. To ingest huge volume of data into Hadoop...

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Fog Computing

Fog computing also refer to Edge computing . Cisco Systems introduced the term "Fog Computing" and it's not the replacement of cloud computing. Ideally cloud computing points to storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead of local computer's hard drive or storage. The cloud is simply a metaphor for the Internet. In Fog computing, data, processing and applications are concentrated in devices at the network edge. Here devices communicate peer-to-peer so that data storage and share...

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