2 Blog ~ 2 Belong
It’s overtime for me to join the current millenium and start blogging. A few things kicked me into doing this now: invitations to guest blog at CCCBlog and GigaOM enthusiasm to write about our new...
View ArticleFirst GigaOm post on data-parallelism is up
The first of two invited posts at GigaOm are up. These are not researchy, they’re intended to be informative to a broad audience. They describe the state of affairs in data parallelism, and some of...
View ArticleMapReduce is my chum
One more post on MapReduce and parallel SQL, this time for the folks at O’Reilly Radar. Just for the record, I think MapReduce is fine, but not especially interesting technology. The thing is, the...
View ArticleCIDR Conference Notes 1
CIDR 2009 is shaping up to be as interesting as I had hoped. If you don’t know about CIDR, it’s a conference founded by David DeWitt, Jim Gray and Mike Stonebraker 8 years back, for data systems work...
View ArticleCIDR Notes 2: power
On Wednesday morning there was very interesting discussion of power management in datacenters and data management software James Hamilton — formerly of Microsoft and now at Amazon — gave a killer...
View ArticleWinning in the Cloud
At HPTS 2001 I gave a quick seat-of-the-pants talk called We Lose, which argued that database software and research wasn’t targeting the hacker community, and therefore was dooming itself to...
View ArticleInflection Point?
I’m increasingly believing my own story that data-centric programming is the future of parallel computing at the high end. I’m starting to hear it echoed back at me from real people. I attended the...
View ArticleRaft of papers #1: MAD Skills
Update: VLDB slides posted [pptx] [pdf] It’s been a busy month pushing out papers. I’ll cover some of them here over the next days. The first one I’ll mention is MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for...
View ArticleEMC += Greenplum
I don’t usually post about business deals on my blog. But today’s acquisition of Greenplum by EMC is too close to home not to comment. I’ve been involved as a technical advisor at Greenplum for almost...
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