Scalable Datasets with Bloom Filters and Ruby

It's a nice algorithmic arrow to have in your quiver. It allows you to determine if a piece of data is missing before you do an expensive lookup.

And (just over a year ago) - <a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/bloom-filters-a-powerful-tool-599.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.rubyinside.com/bloom-filters-a-powerful-tool-599....</a>

The "Ruby" label for this article is rather misleading. It doesn't talk at all about implementation, rather just calling into a library, which is written primarily in C anyway.

Nice article, but Ruby wouldn't have been my language of choice for illustrating HPC concepts.

Very nice tutorial! Nice and easy to read.