Digital Digressions by Stuart Sierra
From programming to everything else
I just did my first test-run of a Hadoop cluster on Amazon EC2. It’s not as tricky as it appears, although I ran into some snags, which I’ll document here. I also found these pages helpful: EC2 on Hadoop Wiki and manAmplified. First, make sure the EC2 API tools are installed and on your path.…
I just ran my first Amazon EC2 instance. Kind of a heady feeling, having nearly unlimited computing power just a few keystrokes away. I got the same feeling the first time I logged in as root on a dedicated web server. I gotta say, though, that the ticking meter — even at just $0.10/hour —…