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Break into Silicon Valley with a blog 13 Apr 2013 | 12:03 am
I know a lot of non-technical people who would love to work in the venture-funded startup world, from consultants to finance people to other business types for which I'm not really sure exactly what i...
Principles of Software Engineering, Part 1 2 Apr 2013 | 11:00 pm
This is the first in a series of posts on the principles of software engineering. There's far more to software engineering than just "making computers do stuff" – while that phrase is accurate, it doe...
My new startup 1 Apr 2013 | 11:41 pm
There's been a lot of speculation about what my new startup is doing, so I've decided to set the record straight and reveal all. We are working on one of the biggest problems on Earth, a problem that ...
Leaving Twitter 16 Mar 2013 | 09:39 pm
Yesterday was my last day at Twitter. I left to start my own company. What I'll be working on is very exciting (though I'm keeping it secret for now). Leaving Twitter was a tough decision. I worked w...
Storm's 1st birthday 19 Sep 2012 | 09:24 pm
Storm was open-sourced exactly one year ago today. It's been an action-packed year for Storm, to say the least. Here's some of the exciting stuff that's happened over the past year: 27 companies have...
Suffering-oriented programming 7 Feb 2012 | 08:36 am
Someone asked me an interesting question the other day: "How did you justify taking such a huge risk on building Storm while working on a startup?" (Storm is a realtime computation system). I can see ...
Suffering-oriented programming 7 Feb 2012 | 03:36 am
Someone asked me an interesting question the other day: "How did you justify taking such a huge risk on building Storm while working on a startup?" (Storm is a realtime computation system). I can see ...
Early access edition of my book is available 10 Jan 2012 | 12:39 pm
The early access edition of my book Big Data: principles and best practices of scalable realtime data systems is now available from Manning! I've been working on this book for quite some time, and I'm...
Early access edition of my book is available 10 Jan 2012 | 07:39 am
The early access edition of my book Big Data: principles and best practices of scalable realtime data systems is now available from Manning! I've been working on this book for quite some time, and I'm...
How to beat the CAP theorem 14 Oct 2011 | 05:50 am
The CAP theorem states a database cannot guarantee consistency, availability, and partition-tolerance at the same time. But you can't sacrifice partition-tolerance (see here and here), so you must mak...
