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stephen's writeup is at http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/10/02/hadoopworld/.

Open source window manager behind Cloudera Desktop: MooTools ART (http://github.com/anutron/art).

Stuff the results of the crawl into Hadoop, write some MapReduce jobs to process the data, and then serve the structured data back up with HBase?

SoftLayer's bare server API (http://softlayer.com/resources_api.html) and monthly pricing have suited our needs nicely. We've seen seen two problems (a porn site in the same datacenter sometimes gets DDOSed and the firewall in one data center is remarkably flaky), and they've been remarkably quick to respond to each.

The amount of tooling around the Amazon ecosystem is nice, but we mostly just use it for automating builds.

We're hiring here at Cloudera.

We're especially interested in web developers who have built and deployed large, extensible applications into production environments. An interest in data visualization and analysis doesn't hurt. We also have some deep distributed storage system hacking problems.

We have a strong preference for open source experience: our team (see http://cloudera.com/about) includes core contributors from the Berkeley DB, Ganglia, Lucene/Nutch, Hadoop, and MooTools projects.

We expect you to communicate ideas clearly, exhibit preternatural intellectual curiosity across a variety of domains, write quality code, and have a consistent focus on improving yourself and the team around you.

If you're interested, drop your CV and a cover letter to jobs@cloudera.com.

Really? AdSense: Applied Semantics acquisition; AdWords: GoTo/Overture innovated here; Google Earth: Keyhole acquisition; Google Apps: Writely/Zenter acquisitions; SketchUp: @Last Software acquisition.

are you sure facebook has a big oracle install? how do they use it?

this is a complete fabrication. facebook's thrift was inspired by pillar, an rpc library written in ml by former cto adam d'angelo.