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Re:Don't use Hadoop – your data isn't that big (2013) by ntoshev on Friday May 22, 2015 @03:59PM (#9590616)
Yup, I'm actively using this architecture, in Python, with gevent (so that calls to external services don't stall your web server). I spawn long running computations in separate processes. I've described it here:

http://www.underengineering.com/2014/05/22/DIY-NoSql/

It really achieves 10k simple requests/transactions per second on a single core (or a $5/month VPS). The software support for it might have been better though. I should really release some code that helps with things like executing a function in another process, or verifying that some code executes atomically.

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