Animal Trail, Sierra de las Nieves

Ayer estuve corriendo la modalidad corta de este trail (23 kms) que transcurre por la sierra de las Nieves, en Málaga. El recorrido es precioso, casi todo el tiempo debajo de árboles y por senderos, genial para no iniciados, ya que las cuestas son cortas y el desnivel se reparte a lo largo de toda … Read more

Liar’s Poker

The right book for the right time and the right place. A book that is written in a very direct way with ironic sense of the descriptions and that keeps to engaged till the end, perfect for a 9 hours flight.

Visiting NYC

Every time I visit NYC there are two things that are on my to-do list. The first one is looking for shoes as here there are more options than at home. The second one is to visit a book store and spend there at least 2 – 3 hours. In my bag there is always … Read more

Open source Vs Proprietary software

I read some while ago this article about the use of “Open as a weapon“. This article and its thoughts came to my mind during these last couple of weeks when there have been a couple of security issues happening more or less at the same time. I’m referring to Open SSL heart bleed vulnerability. … Read more

AWS CloudFront

I have started to work with AWS CloudFront with the purpose of improving the time response of the store. Initial expectations: Have an easy way to engage with the services. Integrated and clear invoices explaining the consumed services and unit prices. Training. Concerns: Need to understand how AWS and Google services are evolving in the … Read more

Apache Hadoop

Apache Hadoop is an open-source software framework for storage and large scale processing of data-sets on clusters of commodity hardware. All the modules in Hadoop are designed with a fundamental assumption that hardware failures (of individual machines, or racks of machines) are common and thus should be automatically handled in software by the framework. They … Read more

Before Hadoop, big data

Big Data can be defined as high volume, velocity and variety information assets that demand cost-effective, innovative forms of information processing for enhanced insight and decision making. Big data is basically about a new set of algorithms, topology and use of resources that enable us to gather, analyze and show more data. Every day, we … Read more

Before Hadoop, distributed processing

I’m reading about Content Delivery Network (CDN) and I found the Apache Hadoop project. I have been shocked about the nature of the project, where this comes from and all the toolkit generated around it. It’s massive amount of information, but fascinating for me. Hadoop project comes from the need of requiring more resources for … Read more