This post offers an overview of the Raft algorithm used for implementing distributed consensus. Within the post, we’ll look at what consensus and distributed consensus means, why Raft was developed and give an overview of how it works, along with
Last week, Google Cloud held its latest Next conference in San Francisco, unveiling new AI features, partnerships, tools and technologies to build out its ecosystem and make its services more attractive to developers. The conference was Google Cloud’s largest to
Twitter’s Hadoop System is at the core of its data platform, providing vast storage for analytics of its user actions and allowing its infrastructure to scale whenever needed. Twitter’s large Hadoop clusters number among the world’s largest; its Hadoop file
Over the weekend, The New York Times reported on an obscure American company named Devumi, which sells Twitter followers to anyone who wants to appear more popular online, often using fake social media accounts to do so, and collecting millions
Machine Learning (ML) is being ever more employed by business in an increasingly widening collection of commercial applications. There are five emerging giants of ML today: Netflix, Google, Twitter, Facebook and Uber. Netflix recently hosted a Machine Learning Platform meetup
