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I can't really understand the idea of installing "monster" software onto tiny machines. I wouldn't be totally puzzled if this post came from some hobbyist, but

• shrughes 14y ago
  The idea is advertising.
  • nivertech 14y ago
    Besides advertising it can be PoC of running NoSQL workloads on ARM architecture.
• vidarh 14y ago
  These "tiny machines" are still massively larger/faster/more flexible than the enterprise workhorses of not that many years ago... The challenge of getting "monster" software onto them is an interesting exercise in part because it reveals a lot about the software when you see how it acts on machines that are constrained and slow by modern standards. I feel I still learn far more from working on platforms with severe resource constraints than elsewhere, because a lot of issues that still affect larger systems but that are masked suddenly become massive in-your-face challenges. And of course it can simply be just fun.
• matthavener 14y ago
  You could take advantage of the replication for some kind of highly reliable monitoring device: take different samples with each raspberry pi, the data is duplicated on N devices, and then you can come back later to collect not worrying about sd card or device failure.
• wwkeyboard 14y ago
  "I thought it might be fun to create a Riak cluster on a set of Pis I had lying around... Note that cluster isn’t fit for any purpose in its current form." RTFA