Fwd: [Zope] zope on google file system

Tim Nash thedagdae at gmail.com
Fri Mar 28 17:33:51 EDT 2008


>  And if your data is large enough to warrant using hadoop you're never
>  going to store them in Zope.

If you cache the GUI using javascript, keep the business layer thin
and off-load the majority of the indexing, why not?

>  Procfs is a virtual filesystem, devfs is a virtual filesystem. smb
OK, hold on while I write a distributed map/reduce system that runs on devfs..
:)

>
>  http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~sguha/code.html#hadoopy
>
Thanks for this link (really). I hope this library develops more. It
looks interesting. I was only thinking along these lines:
http://www.michael-noll.com/wiki/Writing_An_Hadoop_MapReduce_Program_In_Python

>  Although it would probably a lot easier to use ctypes on the c lib and
>  making a nicer interface using that.
>
Please explain. Would your idea work better with localfs?

>  You can use "popen" to run your map/reduce command from inside your
>  "object" and to fetch the results to display inside Zope (probably
>  fairly inefficient, but, it'd work).
In my case, I think many search requests can be pre-indexed into
python so it would be only a few users that would suffer.

>
>  Oh but you wanted to store the files IN zope... so you can ignore all that.
>

I'd just as well would rather ignore the sarcasm. At least you are
willing to think about this!
-Tim


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