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Brad Hedlund
Personal blog · bradhedlund.comsystems
Brad Hedlund's personal blog at bradhedlund.com covers systems. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Understanding Hadoop Clusters and the Network”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Brad Hedlund's writing on data centre and network design, especially his 2011 post on Hadoop network design challenges, when discussing networking budgets and scale.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
blog on enterprise networking
Most-linked posts?
- Understanding Hadoop Clusters and the Network2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-12
What Hacker News says?
Yep if you getting huge bills you should be doing on prem HPC eg where a 15k budget means 15kw per container and your into exotic network designs where 10g wont cut it any more. eg from 2011 6400 Hadoop nodes like http://bradhedlund.com/2011/11/05/hadoop-network-design-chal... God only knows what fun you could get up to with modern tech - I miss bleeding edge rnd
Comment linking /2011/11/05/hadoop-network-design-challenge/
on “Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great height”Submitted Understanding Hadoop Clusters and the Network as a story · 4 points
HN discussionDepends how Googles network is set up and how fast and over provisioned it is - how much budget you have for networking also comes into it (that's the power budget btw) Brad Hedlund has some interesting articles on the challenges http://bradhedlund.com/2011/11/05/hadoop-network-design-chal...
Comment linking /2011/11/05/hadoop-network-design-challenge/
on “Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology”Submitted On data center scale, OpenFlow, and SDN as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Calculate TCP throughput for long distance WAN links (2008) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Calculate TCP throughput for long distance WAN links as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is a Distributed Firewall? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Hadoop Clusters and the Network as a story · 1 points
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