Gitosis is unmaintained and shouldn’t be used for new deployments. Use Gitolite or Forgejo instead. This guide covers Gitolite, which provides fine-grained access control, is actively maintained, and handles multiple repositories under a single system user. Prerequisites A server running Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, or similar) SSH access to the server with sudo privileges A…
Hadoop 3.x remains the current stable version with YARN improvements, HDFS federation, and erasure coding. Hadoop 1.x and 2.x are no longer maintained. For new deployments, evaluate whether Hadoop fits your needs or if managed services like AWS EMR, Google Dataproc, or Azure HDInsight better suit your infrastructure. This post covers common configuration mistakes and…
Hadoop’s default configuration runs in standalone (local) mode as a single JVM process — no HDFS daemons, no YARN, no distributed overhead. This mode is useful for development, testing MapReduce jobs, and debugging before moving to a clustered deployment. For new deployments, evaluate whether you need Hadoop at all. Consider cloud-native alternatives like AWS EMR,…
Archived Content (2010): This post describes a research project from 2010. The tools and versions mentioned (Hadoop 0.20, MapReduce Streaming) are historically significant but have been largely superseded by modern distributed build systems like Bazel Remote Execution and cloud-native CI/CD pipelines. mrcc – A Distributed C Compiler System on MapReduce Original Project Date: January 2010…