It may not be a bad idea to borrow old tape-drive ideas for modern technologies - I mean, hard drives are ever slower compared to cache or RAM, and they are faster at linear seeks (like tapes) than random-access. Hard drives are the new tape?
If you ever get a chance to poke around a large corporate data center -- see if you can check out a SL8500 or one of the TS3500 units.. They're the big things with all kinds of flying robotic arms and crap-loads of storage. Just don't try and walk inside one while the robots are moving.
For reference -- an LTO5 Tape holds about 3TB of data. (and has decent compression -- so that could go much higher)
Nice to see well thought out, coherent computer science-based discussions on NoSQL presented in a well produced, informative and educational format. Great job!
Any chance of getting antirez for a Redis talk? I did see someone else on the future list talking about Redis at use in a company, but it's not quite the same thing.
Tim really tried hard to find a good schedule but it was impossible at the time as I had two trips to do when he was in Italy, so we were not able to find any match. But next time we'll be more lucky!
I've love to hear a properly recorded talk with antirez. I consider Redis to be one of the most intelligently designed pieces of software I use.
I was excited to watch the London meetup videos, but unfortunately the combination of the audio quality and his accent made it quite hard to understand what he was saying (my brain seems to be able to deal with one or the other).
When did engineering get so slick and personable? It's a little unnerving to the slightly-antisocial among us... nerdery used to be a safe place for us. Now it's ninjas and slick conferences and macbooks everywhere.
Once a few nerds became the richest people on Earth they made it a lot harder for us real antisocials to blend in - and now this whole nosql/apple/ninja-sql-esque thing has left us well and truly thwarted.
(Just think of a macbook as a BSD box and you'll regain your self respect)
You’ll see me do that every now & then in the Tapes. I was just checking a screen next to the camera; making sure that the sound levels were still in an appropriate range.
This is awesome! I'm also extremely jealous that you got to travel around the world and talk to smart people about interesting projects. Thanks for doing it.
Thanks man, means a lot. Part of your thanks should also go to the kind sponsors, Scality (http://www.scality.com/) and InfiniteGraph (http://www.infinitegraph.com/) — they were awesome all the way in supporting the project.
I’d wager viewers will get more out of the Tapes than I did, what with me being constantly jet-lagged, running around & all… I don't even remember doing half of those interviews :p
But I'm trying to watch the map reduce video, and I find your constant interruptions exceedingly annoying. Let the person run through their presentation and then follow up with questions
Thanks for the honest feedback. One of my goals in making those videos, was to force guests to spell everything out, for the sake of making complex topics more accessible to a novice audience. Conversely, I understand how that may make the video less enjoyable to more “advanced” viewers. (Or maybe I'm just a plain annoying person.)
That being said, my original plan for the MapReduce vid was to stay out of the shot and not say a word; but Mike actually asked me to help him structure it out as we went along, so… Yeah, as usual, finding the right balance is tricky. But thanks for the note, maybe I'll try to keep more distance in future tapings.
EDIT / TL;DR
I always had the nagging feeling that, while I may be the right people to produce the Tapes, I most certainly was the wrong person to host them. The shame is, nobody else was available :p
For me, the fact that it's a conversation — rather than just a one-man talk — makes it more engaging. I tend to tune out a bit when it's just one person talking (remnants of my University years?), but always snap back into focus when the second person joins in.
Also, in the case of the MapReduce video, it feels helpful to have the concepts repeated in slightly different words. If you understood the idea the first time, it reinforces it. In case you didn't quite get it the first time, it gives you a second chance.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 89.4 ms ] threadhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape_File_System
A Random Access Filesystem that runs on LTO5. (And it even supports OSX!) Cool hack. Just don't ask me why they bothered.
http://www.quantum.com/Products/TapeLibraries/index.aspx
http://www.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/storage/tapebackup_auto...
For reference -- an LTO5 Tape holds about 3TB of data. (and has decent compression -- so that could go much higher)
Tim really tried hard to find a good schedule but it was impossible at the time as I had two trips to do when he was in Italy, so we were not able to find any match. But next time we'll be more lucky!
I was excited to watch the London meetup videos, but unfortunately the combination of the audio quality and his accent made it quite hard to understand what he was saying (my brain seems to be able to deal with one or the other).
When did engineering get so slick and personable? It's a little unnerving to the slightly-antisocial among us... nerdery used to be a safe place for us. Now it's ninjas and slick conferences and macbooks everywhere.
</cranky old(er) person rant>
(N.B. I do like macbooks)
(Just think of a macbook as a BSD box and you'll regain your self respect)
I’d wager viewers will get more out of the Tapes than I did, what with me being constantly jet-lagged, running around & all… I don't even remember doing half of those interviews :p
Great idea, and it looks well put together.
But I'm trying to watch the map reduce video, and I find your constant interruptions exceedingly annoying. Let the person run through their presentation and then follow up with questions
That being said, my original plan for the MapReduce vid was to stay out of the shot and not say a word; but Mike actually asked me to help him structure it out as we went along, so… Yeah, as usual, finding the right balance is tricky. But thanks for the note, maybe I'll try to keep more distance in future tapings.
EDIT / TL;DR
I always had the nagging feeling that, while I may be the right people to produce the Tapes, I most certainly was the wrong person to host them. The shame is, nobody else was available :p
Also, in the case of the MapReduce video, it feels helpful to have the concepts repeated in slightly different words. If you understood the idea the first time, it reinforces it. In case you didn't quite get it the first time, it gives you a second chance.