2015–2016 archive

The historic VirtEngine blog

The original articles are preserved verbatim in their original order. Commands, dependencies, links, product names, and security practices may now be obsolete.

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Shelves in a library, looking up through the stacks.
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Server racks in a provider data centre.
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Hadoop/Spark multi-node setup

This is an installation guide for Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark on a multi node setup. We will use Cloudera v5 as it has the packages for debian. You are free to use Hortonworks ,MapR (o…

A hand writing in a ledger — metered usage being settled.
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Setting up Scala, SBT, Play, Akka

Part 1 : Setting up Scala, SBT, Play, Akka This will be multi-part series in building a cloud API server for our PaaS with cloud instrumentation using a messaging layer. 1. Let us setup S…

Hands holding a document during a verification step.
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How to contribute to a Git Repository

Now that you know the little gists on creating a forking and cloning a repository,let’s move on and learn about how to contribute to a Git repository. A great way to get involved in open…

Shelves in a library, looking up through the stacks.
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Setting up Golang

Introduction Go, also commonly referred to as golang, is a programming language initially developed at Google in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson . Go is: • open sourc…