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Posted to commits@fluo.apache.org by mw...@apache.org on 2018/03/14 17:35:12 UTC

[fluo-website] branch gh-pages updated: Moved Percolator reference to design docs (#148)

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The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/gh-pages by this push:
     new 63e8ec8  Moved Percolator reference to design docs (#148)
63e8ec8 is described below

commit 63e8ec8922c23a0d48e4ce7b4fe7577db3165acc
Author: Mike Walch <mw...@apache.org>
AuthorDate: Wed Mar 14 13:35:11 2018 -0400

    Moved Percolator reference to design docs (#148)
---
 _fluo-1-2/getting-started/design.md | 6 ++++++
 index.html                          | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/_fluo-1-2/getting-started/design.md b/_fluo-1-2/getting-started/design.md
index 00d6f7a..fb2dcd3 100644
--- a/_fluo-1-2/getting-started/design.md
+++ b/_fluo-1-2/getting-started/design.md
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ The diagram below provides an overview of Apache Fluo's design.
 
 ![fluo-architecture][1]
 
+## Background
+
+The design of Apache Fluo is inspired by Google's [Percolator][percolator] which is described as
+being used to populate Google's search index.
+
 ## Fluo Application
 
 A **Fluo application** maintains a large scale computation using a series of small transactional
@@ -42,4 +47,5 @@ Fluo requires the following software to be running on the cluster:
 * **Zookeeper** - Fluo stores its metadata and state information in Zookeeper. Zookeeper is also
   required for Accumulo.
 
+[percolator]: https://research.google.com/pubs/pub36726.html
 [1]: /resources/docs/fluo-architecture.png
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index a4f9080..92b7e45 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ html_title_override: true
       <a href="https://twitter.com/apachefluo" target="_blank" class="btn btn-primary btn-sm navbar-btn"><i class="fa fa-twitter fa-lg"></i> Follow</a>
     </div>
     <h3 style="padding-top: 0px">Overview</h3>
-    <p>With Apache Fluo, users can set up workflows that execute cross node transactions when data changes. These workflows enable users to continuously join new data into large existing data sets without reprocessing all data. Apache Fluo is an open source implementation of <a href="https://research.google.com/pubs/pub36726.html" target="_blank">Percolator</a> (which populates Google's search index) that is built on <a href="https://accumulo.apache.org/" target="_blank">Apache Accumulo< [...]
+    <p>With Apache Fluo, users can set up workflows that execute cross node transactions when data changes. These workflows enable users to continuously join new data into large existing data sets without reprocessing all data. Apache Fluo is built on <a href="https://accumulo.apache.org/" target="_blank">Apache Accumulo</a>.</p>
     <p>Take the <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/tour/">Fluo tour</a> if you are interested in learning more. Feel free to <a  href="{{ site.baseurl }}/contactus/">contact us</a> if you have questions.</p>
   </div>
   <div class="col-sm-4">

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