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A Reference Architecture for the Cloudera Private Cloud Base Data Platform

Cloudera

This blog post provides an overview of best practice for the design and deployment of clusters incorporating hardware and operating system configuration, along with guidance for networking and security as well as integration with existing enterprise infrastructure. Operating System Disk Layouts. Networking .

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Five World-Changing Software Innovations

LeanEssays

The Google File System by Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, and Shun-Tak Leung described how the data was managed by dividing it into small chunks and maintaining multiple copies (typically three) of each chunk across the hardware. And I admired Google for sharing these sophisticated technical insights. That was a surprise!

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Load Balancers / Reverse Proxy. Focus on the core capability of your startup and if you are facing technically hard problems and you have to build something custom for it then roll up the sleeves and go for it. What operating systems do you use? How do you handle load balancing? Egnyte Object Store.