Over the weekend, LinkedIn migrated their data center from Chicago to LA. To do this, LinkedIn offlined their service. In short, this was the wrong way to do it. LinkedIn initially scheduled the outage to be five hours but it turned out to be much more (the official LinkedIn twitter account asks people to hold [...]
Today was Hadoop World 2010 in NYC. Put together by the good folk at Cloudera, this conference was a long day focusing on big data, analytics and the Hadoop ecosystem. All in all, this was a good conference. Hadoop and I were decent friends before today, with me being pretty good on how it could [...]
As some of you know, I’ve been working on a NoSQL book for the last few months. It’s been coming along pretty well — about 8 chapters written or so — and I have been in conversations with two different publishers, one of which was almost at the signing phase about a month ago or [...]
In a series on new tech skills, the Washington DC edition of the examiner.com wrote a short profile about me and the NoSQL movement.
In my opinion, the NoSQL movement is in that techie-only phase. If you want to think of it hype cycle terms, NoSQL is pretty much all the way over on the left, although not for the usual reasons (as the some of the facets of the underlying technology is quite old). A lot of techies [...]
After one day at NoSQL East, I believe I can do a quick compare & contrast with OpenWorld. Cost To Go $600 $2500 Location Atlanta GA San Francisco CA Number of Attendees 125 40,000 Laptop % in use during talks ~95% ~10% Typical dress T-shirt & jeans Business Casual/Suits & no ties General Content Much [...]
It’s looking like October’s going to be a travel month. First, Oracle OpenWorld out in SF for a week, then to Atlanta for NoSQL. OpenWorld should be interesting; I’ve been a time or two before. Usually, they have a big thing to push (NetPC, 10g, 11g, etc.). I’m not sure as to what it’s going [...]
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