I had a wonderful time at the Hadoop Summit

I hung out with some friends and made some new ones.

I ran into my old buddys Htin and Sagar from Attributor.com, it was really good to see them.

I also got to hang with a bunch friends, from Cloudera folk, Ted Dunning of DeepDyve, Michael Stack of Powerset, and some friends from Ning. A very good time was had.

I listened to a number of fun presentations, and passed out lots of flyers for my book.

There were over 700 people at the summit, including people form overseas. This is a big jump from last years 200 or so.

HBase v 0.20 is looking very interesting, they have started using ZooKeeper in place of the master server, making that layer of HBase fault tolerant and simpler to configure and manage. Go Team!

I have a bunch of pictures and some video clips to post later in the week.