thank you for your prompt suggestions. OpenStack is a way too much for me. Like a starving Yemeni used to rice might feel if he was thrown into an all-you-can-e

thank you for your prompt suggestions. OpenStack is a way too much for me. Like a starving Yemeni used to rice might feel if he was thrown into an all-you-can-eat buffet. Highscalability is an interesting blog but it too has concerns that rapidly outstrip the beginners brain. I need a gentle set of tutorials with exercises that walk me through a specific problem - like setting up a 'sharded database' over a cluster and then performing 'work' on it. Then learning how to add streaming data. Then shutting off one machine in the cluster and seeing how the system responds.