Open Source Developers Build on Amazon Web Services

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jan 13, 2007 12:01 AM EDT
TechWeb; By Thomas Claburn
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Clustered grid computing is increasingly available to the masses. Thanks to developer Doug Cutting, a Yahoo employee and prominent open source developer, aspiring programmers have access to the Lucene search engine library, an open source Web search crawler called Nutch, and Hadoop, an open source implementation of Google's MapReduce algorithm for processing large data sets. U.K.-based software developer Tom White calls Nutch "Google in a jar."

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