Comments on: How Disney built a big data platform on a startup budget

By: Derrick Harris

Derrick Harris — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:15:46 +0000

Thanks for the link to this conversation. I’m not certain anything was taken out of context, although I’m happy to clarify it with Arun. The point about developers and NoSQL access has certainly been simplified for readability, but still gets to the larger point of having to take certain steps to protect a wide range of users within Disney that depend on the platform.

By: rameshbabua

rameshbabua — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:31:18 +0000

Read the follow up to this post at http://linkd.in/RRpr5k.

It appears that Arun’s views has been edited and quoted out-of-context in some places.

By: saurshaz

saurshaz — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:50:33 +0000

Very good read. really could relate to the opensource flexibility – “You pay for [open-source projects] late at night, you pay for them by learning to run them, you pay for them by reading people’s source code who even if you could read it, it still doesn’t make any sense,” Jacob said. But those things can be overcome if you’re willing to put in the time.”

By: chuckstormon

chuckstormon — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:26:33 +0000

Well done team Disney. For those of us who aren’t Disney, http://www.MediaCloud.cc is a simple, secure and fast way of sharing huge files (like video work in progress).

By: jvesq

jvesq — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 04:59:00 +0000

Considerably more really – they had a dedicated Ops team to manage, so folks could focus on dev – you also had multiple, very large teams through Disney (Read: ESPN) doing a ton in the cloud, and informing them of results, and also contributing organically. I understand this was a cool success – all for it – but to think in start up terms for budget just does not ring true

By: CurtisP

CurtisP — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:39:00 +0000

“In some cases, the team decided to hide the platform’s complexity from users; not to facilitate its use, but to keep loose-cannon developers from doing something crazy that could take down the whole cluster. It could show them all the controls and knobs in a NoSQL database, but “they tend to shoot each other,” Jacob said. “First they shoot themselves, then they shoot each other.””

I wonder if this is true or a presumption based on this person’s experiences?

Could it be a case of IT controlling too much?

If a power user is able to develop in NoSQL, then they would have some pretty advanced skills, so wouldn’t they be on development side? Do they have to limit what other IT staff do?

So many questions …

By: George Hill

George Hill — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:31:21 +0000

Great to see the response for this. If you are interested in watching Arun’s presentation you can sign up for IE. Membership, contact Carolina at cgomez@theiegroup.com for more details

By: Paul Lang

Paul Lang — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:53:38 +0000

What was the tipping point on Solandra?

By: Virt

Virt — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:20:16 +0000

Actualky, closer to <10% of what you suggest as resources. It was a skunk works program that fought for its life regularly and only grew organically… A rare success is a large company.

By: dbrownblogs

dbrownblogs — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:24:07 +0000

Reblogged this on BrownGoods and commented: interesting big - little company thinking.