Todd pinged me to see how I felt about antirez’s suggession in his post titled “On the webserver scalability and speed are almost the same thing“. While I disagree with parts of the post, I can understand why he believed what he wrote. If someone were to design a state of the art scalable webserver in [...]

A few of us joined in at the new Twitter office in downtown SF (right next to Moscone Center) and were for the first time shown what Twitter is doing about  “Twitter Annotations”. We probably created the first set of 3rd party applications around this new API. During the Hackathon I spent some time to [...]

Hive is a data warehouse infrastructure built over Hadoop. It provides tools to enable easy data ETL, a mechanism to put structures on the data, and the capability to querying and analysis of large data sets stored in Hadoop files. Hive defines a simple SQL-like query language, called QL, that enables users familiar with SQL [...]