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BackType Tech@BackTypeTech13 Oct 2011
How to beat the CAP theorem bit.ly/qXhe26 /via @nathanmarz
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BackType Tech retweeted
Welcome Sam Ritchie as new Cascalog committer groups.google.com/group/casc…
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BackType Tech@BackTypeTech21 Jun 2011
BackType featured in @Werner's opening remarks at #AWSSummit twitpic.com/5etdtx h/t @ManuKumar
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BackType Tech@BackTypeTech20 Jun 2011
Storm processing Twitter data http://bit.ly/mIIOWf http://bit.ly/k96gdU
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Added support for Fancy to @backtype's Storm (distributed real-time computation system). Now you can write Storm jobs in Fancy :)
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BackType Tech@BackTypeTech10 Jun 2011
Good time hanging out with @matei_zaharia today at the BT headquarters. Hacking Storm and Spark /cc @nathanmarz @michaelmontano
BackType Tech retweeted
Spark, a superset of MapReduce and Pregel, is the future of batch processing. I got a demo today and was blown away. bit.ly/mHJoEO
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BackType Tech@BackTypeTech9 Jun 2011
Love that we're a featured Amazon case study, but we definitely don't use "Oracle Grid Engine" http://bit.ly/lk22ZG
BackType Tech@BackTypeTech31 May 2011
Slides from @nathanmarz's ElephantDB talk #gluecon http://slidesha.re/ljAkQv
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BackType Tech@BackTypeTech28 May 2011
"There is almost nothing that can go wrong ... I had ElephantDB working flawlessly in less than a day." http://bit.ly/jBQhb0
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BackType Tech@BackTypeTech26 May 2011
Also, we're always looking for great engineers. We've been writing and deploying real Storm topologies during interviews.
BackType Tech@BackTypeTech26 May 2011
Don't worry folks — we have a demo of Storm coming soon!
BackType Tech@BackTypeTech26 May 2011
@jclouds enjoy
BackType Tech@BackTypeTech26 May 2011
Let us know what you think about Storm on Hacker News http://bit.ly/kyGgn1
BackType Tech@BackTypeTech26 May 2011
Preview of Storm: The Hadoop of Realtime Processing http://bit.ly/iB9LLi
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BackType Tech@BackTypeTech26 May 2011
If you're at #gluecon make sure you check out @nathanmarz's ElephantDB talk http://bit.ly/lmTAtX
BackType Tech@BackTypeTech20 May 2011
Looks like we got @jason_j hooked on Clojure https://github.com/jasonjckn/clojure-irc-web-client
BackType Tech@BackTypeTech10 May 2011
New post on our tech blog: Why Yieldbot chose Cascalog over Pig for Hadoop processing http://bit.ly/mJEoTL by @sorenmacbeth
BackType Tech@BackTypeTech5 May 2011
Thrift vs. Protocol Buffers http://bit.ly/kc9ZTn — we're big Thrift users
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