Questions tagged [shared-nothing]

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Is Rails shared-nothing or can separate requests access the same runtime variables?

PHP runs in a shared-nothing environment, which in this context means that every web request is run in a clean environment. You can not access another request's data except through a separate persistence layer (filesystem, database, etc.). What…
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Experience with Hadoop?

Have any of you tried Hadoop? Can it be used without the distributed filesystem that goes with it, in a Share-nothing architecture? Would that make sense? I'm also interested into any performance results you have...
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What are the best papers for learning about algorithms for communicating updates in a distributed system?

I have a distributed system in mind (multiple nodes in a single datacenter) that I want to have the following properties: nodes can enter and leave the system at any time. There is no data replication between nodes. Which node the client makes…
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Shared-nothing Java web application frameworks

Most Java web application frameworks use server-side session objects to store session state. Because this complicates scaling, I'm looking at frameworks that implement a shared-nothing architecture, e.g. the Play! Framework and Apache Click. What…
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Getting current transferred MPI network communication volume

I have a question related to MPI. In order to keep track of the communication volume used by my implementation, I would like to get the currently-transferred data amount since the mpi-process' start until the current measure-point. I checked the…
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Snowflake - Caching with Data Freshness

I've read a lot about snowflake caching, but do not understand how snowflake gets around data freshness problem encountered by other "shared everything architectures". My understanding is that, with shared everything when the data changes, there…
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How to implement a Web-Shop with a Shared Nothing architecture

Some people argue that it is possible and even necessary to implement every webapp with the Shared Nothing architecture. How is it possible to implement a webshop with a shopping cart using this architectural style? Normally a webshop can be…
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Experience documentation about Shared Nothing Architecture

Do you have any experience of designing a Real Shared-Nothing Architecture? Would you have some readings to recommend me?
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Looking for proponents of tightly coupled design versus SOA

This is kind of a weird question which I inflicted on myself. We're having a bit of a debate at work about how to implement what is in effect pretty much a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), with some warts that aren't worth getting into. Namely,…
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LoopBack + Shared nothing database

Is it possible to use loopback with shared nothing database model, where every client has its own database. For any CRUD data should reflect in corresponding client database. Thanks Ankit S
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