Leaving Twitter

I use cascalog and storm everyday at my startup http://truelens.com and they are great contributions to software and big data systems. I'm looking forward to what Nathan is cooking up next.

Re: Leaving Twitter

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Post by jgrahamc » Sat, Mar 16, 2013, 6:26 PM UTC

niggler wrote: post #2

I hate to be that guy, but who is Nathan Marz?

You are not alone in wondering.

Re: Leaving Twitter

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Post by tlrobinson » Sat, Mar 16, 2013, 6:28 PM UTC

niggler wrote: post #2

I hate to be that guy, but who is Nathan Marz?

From TFA:

"I open-sourced Cascalog, ElephantDB, and Storm, started writing a book, gave a lot of talks, and in July of 2011 experienced the thrill of being acquired. My projects spread beyond BackType and Twitter to be relied on by dozens and dozens of companies."

He's pretty well known on HN. "Hacker-News-famous", you could say.

Re: Leaving Twitter

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Post by TallGuyShort » Sat, Mar 16, 2013, 6:33 PM UTC

niggler wrote: post #2

I hate to be that guy, but who is Nathan Marz?

Among other things, he leads Storm (where I know his name from). It's a tool for processing unbounded streams of data (think Mappers and Reducers for Twitter Firehose-style datasets).

Re: Leaving Twitter

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Post by teraflop » Sat, Mar 16, 2013, 6:40 PM UTC

The new title, "Leaving Twitter", is much less descriptive than the previous one, "Nathan Marz is leaving Twitter". Could someone please change it back?

Re: Leaving Twitter

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Post by calibraxis » Sat, Mar 16, 2013, 6:45 PM UTC

niggler wrote: post #2

I hate to be that guy, but who is Nathan Marz?

His talk "Become Efficient or Die" (not currently on his talks page) is very insightful: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDT8OH1x28E&playnext=1&#3...) Most startups I know lack many of the most important things he mentions.

(I realize I probably shouldn't respond to this question, which would have been satisfied by simply reading the link. But it gave me an excuse to post this talk.)

Re: Leaving Twitter

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Post by michaelhoffman » Sat, Mar 16, 2013, 6:49 PM UTC

teraflop wrote: post #8

The new title, "Leaving Twitter", is much less descriptive than the previous one, "Nathan Marz is leaving Twitter". Could someone please change it back?

I don't understand why Hacker News allows us to submit titles with our links. If they are just going to be overridden, then the software should automatically fetch the title from the web page without user input.