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Updated Kafka PHP client library 18 Sep 2012 | 12:45 pm
New PHP client library for the Apache Kafka project. Full support for Kafka 0.7+, with robust socket handling, complete test suite, Zookeeper-based consumer and many other improvements.
Musings on some technical papers I read this weekend 3 Sep 2012 | 01:03 pm
Some random comments on Dremel and a benchmark on Key-Value stores. How to evaluate technical papers and read between the lines.
Historical Twitter access - A journey into optimising Hadoop jobs 8 Aug 2012 | 04:14 am
A journey into optimising Hadoop jobs: the strategies to scan and filter a PetaByte of archived data, schedule new jobs and deliver data fast.
Kafka proposed as Apache incubator project 24 Jun 2011 | 07:38 pm
Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system developed at LinkedIn, designed to support a very high throughput, persistent messages and parallel loading into Hadoop. A proposal has been s...
NoSQL Databases: What, When and Why (PHPUK2011) 28 Feb 2011 | 07:44 am
Some considerations about NoSQL databases, and slides of my talk given at PHPUK 2011: "NoSQL Databases: What, When and Why".
PHPNW10 slides and new job! 19 Oct 2010 | 08:05 pm
Summary of the PHPNW10 conference, Slides about my talk "Profile your PHP application and make it fly" and new job!
The Art of Scalability - DPC10 wrapup 14 Jun 2010 | 02:50 am
A wrapup of the Dutch PHP Conference 2010. Uploaded slides of my talk "The Art of Scalability - Managing growth".
PHP UK 2010: RDBMS in the social networks age 28 Feb 2010 | 04:22 am
Wrapup of the PHP UK Conference 2010. Uploaded slides of my talk "RDBMS in the social networks age" about graphs in the database.
Profiling PHP applications with XHProf: the path to scalability 2 Dec 2009 | 11:22 am
My latest article on Profiling using XHProf, a neat tool developed at Facebook. A step-by-step tutorial to install and use XHProf, and some useful hints on how to improve performances and scalability ...
Speaking at the PHP Barcelona conference 2009 26 Oct 2009 | 08:30 pm
Speaking at the PHP Barcelona Conference 2009. Talk: "Trees in the Database: Advanced Data Structures".
