• Fab February Events @Yelp

  It's a big month for awesome events at Yelp HQ!  Of special interest to those wondering how Yelp uses Hadoop is the Hadoop User Group on the 19th.  I'll be presenting on where Hadoop fits into our Big Data stack.  Unfortunately, Hadoop isn't quite pixie dust you can sprinkle on data and…

• Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 7th, 2014

  Hey, it's HighScalability time: Google "Corkboard" Server, 1999 5 billion requests per day : Heroku serves 60,000 requests per second;  500 Petabytes : Backblaze's New Data Center; 25000 simultaneous connections : on a Percona Server How algorithms help determine that shape of…

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• IBM Launches SmartCloud Data Virtualization Service

  IBM partners with copy data virtualization platform provider Actifo to launch a SmartCloud data virtualization service, and partners with Completel in France to build a unique, high performance cloud offering.