Source: http://cloudstory.in/2012/07/what-is-common-between-mumbai-dabbawalas-and-apache-hadoop/
<quote> Let me start by setting the context – who is a Mumbai Dabbawala? “Dabba” literally means a box and a Dabbawala is a person who carries the box. Everyday, thousands of Mumbaikars (a slang that refers to the residents of Mumbai, the financial capital of India) rely on the Dabbawalas to deliver their lunch boxes carrying the homemade food to their work places. Given the increased cost of living in India and the reluctance to have junk food for everyday meal, many households depend on the network of Dabbawalas. Mumbai is one of the largest cities in the world and an average working professional will have to leave home pretty early in the day to take the local train to commute to the work. The packed food carried from home will lose its freshness by noon. Mumbai Dabbawalas pick up the lunch box much later and manage to deliver it just in time for lunch preserving the warmth of the home food. The whole process repeats in the evening when they collect the empty boxes to drop them back at the respective households. So, what is special about it and how is this related to Apache Hadoop? Keep reading! </quote> continue reading at http://cloudstory.in/2012/07/what-is-common-between-mumbai-dabbawalas-and-apache-hadoop/ -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
