Twitter today open-sourced the code that it used to build its database of users and manage their relationships to one another, called FlockDB. The move comes shortly after Twitter released its Gizzard framework, which it uses to send thousands of queries a second to FlockDB. Read more »
In some ways, the fact that Hadoop is mature enough to inspire commercial products — Cloudera and Karmasphere, e.g. — means it’s yesterday’s news. Which open-source, big-data-inspired product will be the next to launch a wave of startups and drive tens of millions in VC spending? Read more »
Twitter last night offered up the code for Gizzard, an open-source framework for accessing distributed, scalable data stores quickly. It could become an important component of building out a web-based business, much like Facebook’s Cassandra project has for webscale startups and even big companies. Read more »
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