Hadoop Reactions & Announcement of Hadoop Summit at Yahoo! (by Jeremy Zawodny)

I have to say, I'm impressed at the coverage that news about our production Hadoop deployment in Yahoo! Search got yesterday (and today). Here's a quick list of the stories.

Yahoo! Launches World's Largest Hadoop Production Application by Eric Baldeschwieler
Yahoo! Search running Apache Hadoop on Large Scale by me
Open source grid computing takes off by Matt McAlister
Yahoo Search Wants to Be More Like Google, Embraces Hadoop on TechCrunch, complete with an Apples to Oranges comparison
Yahoo Search Index Now Supported By Open-Source Hadoop Architecture on Search Engine Land
Yahoo Gives Hadoop A Big Hug on WebProNews
Meanwhile, Hadoop News by John Battelle
Hadoop Now at the Heart of Every Yahoo! Search on the Yahoo! Search blog
Do You Have an Internet Sized Problem? on More News
Yahoo + Hadoop on 10k Cores on Kevin Burton's FeedBlog
Yahoo Embraces Open Source Some More with Hadoop Inside Search Webmap on Search Engine Journal

I guess good technology makes for good news, huh?

Also, today we're opening up the invite list for the Hadoop Summit to be held on March 25th at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, California. For more on that, check out:

Announcing the Hadoop Summit at Yahoo, March 25th, 2008 on the Yahoo! Developer Network Hadoop blog
Hadoop Summit the event page on the Yahoo! Developer Network
Hadoop Summit on Upcoming.org

As I've said before, this is gonna be quite a heard for Hadoop. :-)

Posted by jzawodn at February 20, 2008 11:36 AM

Reader Comments

# James said:

I wonder what value shareholders place on Yahoo technology...

on February 20, 2008 02:09 PM

# Spo0nman said:

Thechcrunch is truly the lamest of all google fanboys.

on February 20, 2008 09:58 PM

# Bill Boebel said:

For those on the east coast we're giving a presentation at Mailtrust/Rackspace on Monday Feb 25: http://blog.racklabs.com/?p=67

on February 21, 2008 11:24 PM

# sudhish said:

Upcoming hadoop event on April 1 at SDForum Java SIG
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/445861/

on March 12, 2008 09:14 PM

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