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[Nathan Marz @nathanmarz]

Video of my talk on Storm at #strangeloop http://t.co/dKiqGn0Y

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How to beat the CAP theorem http://t.co/G0Odd27N /via @nathanmarz

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Welcome Sam Ritchie as new Cascalog committer http://t.co/VUxJlVG

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BackType featured in @Werner's opening remarks at #AWSSummit twitpic.com/5etdtx h/t @ManuKumar

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Storm processing Twitter data http://bit.ly/mIIOWf http://bit.ly/k96gdU

[Christopher Bertels @bakkdoor]

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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Good time hanging out with @matei_zaharia today at the BT headquarters. Hacking Storm and Spark /cc @nathanmarz @michaelmontano

[Nathan Marz @nathanmarz]

Spark, a superset of MapReduce and Pregel, is the future of batch processing. I got a demo today and was blown away. http://t.co/86yfGOP

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Love that we're a featured Amazon case study, but we definitely don't use "Oracle Grid Engine" http://bit.ly/lk22ZG

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Slides from @nathanmarz's ElephantDB talk #gluecon http://slidesha.re/ljAkQv

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"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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Also, we're always looking for great engineers. We've been writing and deploying real Storm topologies during interviews.

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Don't worry folks — we have a demo of Storm coming soon!

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@jclouds enjoy

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Let us know what you think about Storm on Hacker News http://bit.ly/kyGgn1

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Preview of Storm: The Hadoop of Realtime Processing http://bit.ly/iB9LLi

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If you're at #gluecon make sure you check out @nathanmarz's ElephantDB talk http://bit.ly/lmTAtX

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Looks like we got @jason_j hooked on Clojure https://github.com/jasonjckn/clojure-irc-web-client

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New post on our tech blog: Why Yieldbot chose Cascalog over Pig for Hadoop processing http://bit.ly/mJEoTL by @sorenmacbeth

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Thrift vs. Protocol Buffers http://bit.ly/kc9ZTn — we're big Thrift users