Big Data Fundamentals and Core Technologies Overview
HDFS File System Commands
Disk Usage Information
Retrieve disk usage statistics for a specific path:
hadoop fs -df /home/myfile
Merge Files
Combine multiple files from HDFS into a single local file:
hadoop fs -getmerge /user/hduser0011/test /home/myfile/dir
Write Output to HDFS
Direct console output to an HDFS file:
echo abc | hadoop fs -put ...
Posted on Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:46:45 +0000 by brucensal
Service Registration and Discovery: From Theory to Practice
Service Registration and Discovery: From Theory to Practice
1. What is Service Registration and Discovery?
Let's start by understanding what service registration and discovery means.
Service Registration is the process of registering information about a module that provides a specific service (typically its IP address and port) with a common in ...
Posted on Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:15:56 +0000 by mohabitar
Distributed Lock Implementations in Java with Redis and ZooKeeper
Redis-Based Distributed Locking with Redisson
Distributed systems often require mechanisms to ensure that only one process or thread can access a shared resource at a time across different service instances. Redis, a popular in-memory data store, can be effectively leveraged for this purpose, particularly through libraries like Redisson.
Maven ...
Posted on Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:00:34 +0000 by Pilly
Orchestrating Distributed Systems with Apache Zookeeper and Kafka
Overview of Apache Zookeeper
Apache Zookeeper is a high-performance coordination service for distributted applications. It exposes a simple set of primitives—often used to implement higher-level services for synchronization, configuration maintenance, and groups/naming. It is designed to be highly available and reliable, forming the backbone of ...
Posted on Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:34:36 +0000 by suttercain
Spring MVC XML Configuration for Apache Dubbo Service Provider and Consumer
Provider Side – Service & Data Layer
1.1 Mavan Dependencies
<dependencies>
<!-- ZooKeeper client -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
<artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
<version>${zk.version}</version>
</dependency>
&l ...
Posted on Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:19:08 +0000 by johnsmith153
Dubbo: A Distributed Service Framework for Scalable Microservices
As web applications grew in scale, monolithic architectures became unsustainable. The transition from single-tier systems to distributed service-based models became inevitable to support scalability, resilience, and agile development.
Monolithic Architecture
In early-stage applications with low traffic, all components—UI, business logic, and da ...
Posted on Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:15:27 +0000 by rachelk
Distributed Cron Scheduling with ElasticJob: Sharding, High Availability, and Runtime Rescaling
Consider a typical microservice deployment where an order processing service runs across multiple instances. A common requirement is to daily scan for successfully processed orders from the previous day and notify downstream analytics services.
A naive implemantation using Spring’s @Scheduled annotation leads to duplicate execution in productio ...
Posted on Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:08:38 +0000 by phillyrob
Hadoop Distributed System Fundamentals and Cluster Setup
Big Data Processing Overview
Big data involves analyzing massive datasets to extract valuable insights for organizational decision-making. Core processing stages include:
Data acquisition
Data processing
Result visualization
Hadoop Framework
Hadoop provides distributed processing capabilities for large datasets across computer clusters. Its a ...
Posted on Tue, 26 May 2026 01:24:57 +0000 by SidewinderX
Setting up a Three-Node Kafka+ZooKeeper Cluster on CentOS 7
Environment Setup
JDK Installation
yum install -y java-1.8.0
ZooKeeper Cluster Configuration
Downloading ZooKeeper
wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/zookeeper/zookeeper-3.7.0/apache-zookeeper-3.7.0-bin.tar.gz
tar xf apache-zookeeper-3.7.0-bin.tar.gz
Configurasion File Adjustments
# Backup sample configuration
# cp zoo_sample.cfg zoo.cfg
c ...
Posted on Fri, 22 May 2026 22:30:35 +0000 by fredriksk
Zookeeper: Distributed Coordination Service for ELK Stack
ZooKeeper is an open-source distributed coordination service designed for high availability, performance, and consistency in distributed applications. It provides a fundamental service: distributed locking. Distributed applications can build more advanced services on top of it, such as synchronization services, configuration maintenance, cluste ...
Posted on Thu, 14 May 2026 21:21:03 +0000 by jcantrell