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Old readwriteweb article

"Secrets of BackType's Data Engineers - How do three guys with only seed funding process 100 million msgs a day?"

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/01/secrets-of-backtype... HN discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2097926

I am not a Clojure fan, but I found BackType engineer Nathan Marz's fusion of Datalog, Clojure and Hadoop to create Cascalog very impressive, and was looking forward to Storm.

Given Twitter's history with Open Source, I'm guessing we'll still see Storm.

I enjoyed reading about Nathan's work as well. He was the only team member I knew of.

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