Arquitectura?

"Shark is a large-scale data warehouse system for Spark designed to be compatible with Apache Hive. It can answer Hive QL queries up to 100 times faster than Hive without modification to the existing data nor queries. Shark supports Hive's query language, metastore, serialization formats, and user-defined functions."

"Scalding is a Scala library that makes it easy to specify Hadoop MapReduce jobs. Scalding is built on top of Cascading, a Java library that abstracts away low-level Hadoop details. Scalding is comparable to Pig, but offers tight integration with Scala, bringing advantages of Scala to your MapReduce jobs."

"Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not aim for maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For instance, compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster for most inputs, but the resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to 100% bigger. On a single core of a Core i7 processor in 64-bit mode, Snappy compresses at about 250 MB/sec or more and decompresses at about 500 MB/sec or more. Snappy is widely used inside Google, in everything from BigTable and MapReduce to our internal RPC systems. (Snappy has previously been referred to as "Zippy" in some presentations and the likes.)"

"LZ4 is a very fast lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed at 300 MB/s per core, scalable with multi-cores CPU. It also features an extremely fast decoder, with speeds up and beyond 1GB/s per core, typically reaching RAM speed limits on multi-core systems."

"LibLZF is a very small data compression library. It consists of only two .c and two .h files and is very easy to incorporate into your own programs. The compression algorithm is very, very fast, yet still written in portable C."

Idea interesante para implementar usos del patrón "ask" (request-reply) con mayor seguridad de tipos.

"Ning-compress is a Java library for encoding and decoding data in LZF format, compatible with standard C LZF package."

"A sbt plugin for creating distributable Scala packages that include dependent jars and launch scripts."

"The goal is to be able to bundle up Scala software built with SBT for native packaging systems, like deb, rpm, homebrew, msi."

"Learning your way around a new software stack is challenging enough without having to spend multiple cycles on the install process. Instead, we have packaged such stacks into pre-built Oracle VM VirtualBox appliances that you can download, install, and experience as a single unit."

"Here You can find ready to download virtual machines with preinstalled different Open Source Unix and Linux operating systems. Each virtual machine on this website has been prepared using VMware Player technology."

"VMware images"