I have a passion for the operation of systems at Internet scale. Part of that passion is academic. Part is pragmatic. Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Amazon each have differing approaches to building services that scale to support tens of millions of users and billions of objects. I look forward to working at that scale again with blist.

Today I’m out of the office, in the field so to speak. I’m attending the Hadoop Summit in Santa Clara with about 225 other folks who are interested enough in distributed computing to give up a day from their normal routines. It should be a great day to learn how other people are using and/or evaluating Hadoop. As much as I’ll enjoy and benefit from that, I’m as eager to meet other folks interested in solving challenges at Internet scale.

If you’re at the Hadoop Summit, track me down and say hello.