
Programming is used everywhere. Electronics devices, smartphones, gaming, software, etc. Any and every piece of technology involves programming these days. Raspberry Pi is one of the hot technologies that involves programming and are an integral part of our lives. Let’s begin with a small introduction to Raspberry Pi: What...

Arduino is an open-source prototyping platform used for building electronics projects. It consists of both a physical programmable circuit board and a software, or IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that runs on your computer, where you can write and upload the computer code to the physical board. Arduino was born...

Summer vacations are no longer same. Our childhood days of summer vacations were pretty simple and lazy – watching television, fighting over ice creams, playing cricket match, sleeping till late, going for family trips. That’s it! But, this 24X7 connected gen no longer gets excited over such lazy holidays....

This blog gives you information about Rack Awareness in Apache Hadoop. HDFS block placement uses rack awareness for fault tolerance by placing one block replica on a different rack. This ensures data availability during network switch failure or a partition within the cluster. Rack awareness is very helpful in...