Cease-and-desist letter unlikely for transit map

Jan 9, 2007

I was mentioned again in the Toronto section of yesterday’s Globe And Mail, this time in an article on the TTC website redesign. I can’t find the link online, but here’s the paragraph:

During the past year, the TTC went from sending a cease-and-desist letter to blogger John Martz for publishing Read more

On My Mind

Recently Read

HDFS: Realtime Hadoop usage at Facebook: The Complete Story

Linked on Jul 4 at 16:58

Facebook is now using Hadoop for realtime workloads, which is interesting in and of itself. (Cassandra was Facebook’s go-to for NoSQL data.) They’ve also extended Hadoop to make it a more effective realtime system. This white paper and slides detail why they chose Hadoop, what changes they made and what is left to be done.