Less Clumsy Code for the Cloud
Cloud computing allows companies to store and process data more efficiently than ever. But the code that’s used to control the machines in a computing “cloud” remains surprisingly clunky. Now some researchers are exploring novel programming languages for controlling the cloud, and they’re borrowing an approach developed in the ’80s.
Most programming languages were never designed handle so many computers or so much data spread out across them. Software frameworks such as Google’s MapReduce and an open competitor called Hadoop provide handy tools for doing this. But there’s room to make the process much more efficient.
Erica Naone
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/24220/
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