HBase talk at 11:05, what is up with that easter egg o_O ? Having watched 3 talks so far, I might say that they are quite informative. Nice work.
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Announcing NoSQL Tapes
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#22This is awesome! I'm also extremely jealous that you got to travel around the world and talk to smart people about interesting projects. Thanks for doing it.
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It's being worked on. There's a lot of overhead inherent in random access, which really isn't necessary for most applications. ;)
Hm, tape drives aren't even sold anymore, otherwise I might try.
It may not be a bad idea to borrow old tape-drive ideas for modern technologies - I mean, hard drives are ever slower compared to cache or RAM, and they are faster at linear seeks (like tapes) than random-access. Hard drives are the new tape?
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#24This is awesome! I'm also extremely jealous that you got to travel around the world and talk to smart people about interesting projects. Thanks for doing it.
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#25Any chance of getting antirez for a Redis talk? I did see someone else on the future list talking about Redis at use in a company, but it's not quite the same thing.
antirez and I tried but the schedule didn't work out. He’s on my list for 2011, if he’s still up for it :)
Sure I'll be glad :)
Tim really tried hard to find a good schedule but it was impossible at the time as I had two trips to do when he was in Italy, so we were not able to find any match. But next time we'll be more lucky!
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's being worked on. There's a lot of overhead inherent in random access, which really isn't necessary for most applications. ;)
Hm, tape drives aren't even sold anymore, otherwise I might try.
Sure they are -- tape libraries are still sold, primarily for backups, eg:
http://www.quantum.com/Products/TapeLibraries/index.aspx
http://www.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/storage/tapebackup_auto...
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#27timanglade -
Great idea, and it looks well put together.
But I'm trying to watch the map reduce video, and I find your constant interruptions exceedingly annoying. Let the person run through their presentation and then follow up with questions
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#28timanglade - Great idea, and it looks well put together. But I'm trying to watch the map reduce video, and I find your constant interruptions exceedingly annoying. Let the person run through their presentation and then follow up with questions
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#29timanglade - Great idea, and it looks well put together. But I'm trying to watch the map reduce video, and I find your constant interruptions exceedingly annoying. Let the person run through their presentation and then follow up with questions
For me, the fact that it's a conversation — rather than just a one-man talk — makes it more engaging. I tend to tune out a bit when it's just one person talking (remnants of my University years?), but always snap back into focus when the second person joins in.
Also, in the case of the MapReduce video, it feels helpful to have the concepts repeated in slightly different words. If you understood the idea the first time, it reinforces it. In case you didn't quite get it the first time, it gives you a second chance.
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It's being worked on. There's a lot of overhead inherent in random access, which really isn't necessary for most applications. ;)
Hm, tape drives aren't even sold anymore, otherwise I might try.
If you ever get a chance to poke around a large corporate data center -- see if you can check out a SL8500 or one of the TS3500 units.. They're the big things with all kinds of flying robotic arms and crap-loads of storage. Just don't try and walk inside one while the robots are moving.
For reference -- an LTO5 Tape holds about 3TB of data. (and has decent compression -- so that could go much higher)