October 2009
4 posts
Hadoop at Yahoo! →
Slides from Eric14’s talk at UIUC.
GitHub's new architecture →
Very well written article highlighting the new architecture of GitHub (post-Rackspace move). Every company/team should at least have a similar internal document describing their current architecture at a high-level but unfortunately doesn’t happen in most companies.
GitHub seems to be using a lot of familiar Opensource projects in their stack - Nginx, Ruby/Rails/Unicorn, HAProxy, MySQL,...
Speaking at FOSS.MY 2009
I’ll be speaking about Hadoop at FOSS.MY 2009 in KL. They’ve an interesting bunch of speakers this year including Brain Aker, David Axmark, RMS. This will be my first time to FOSS.MY!
If you’re attending, do drop by my talk on Sunday afternoon :)
Log-analysis software
There were a couple of interesting articles on DBMS2 on log analysis software vendors, Splunk and SenSage. I’m amazed that both companies have around 150+ employees and are profitable. There’s also a good summary of who their main customers are and how they’re using their products.