Ben Werdmuller

Month: April 2009

  • Facebook has no need for deleting data

    Niall Kennedy has written an interesting post about Facebook’s data storage. They’ve written a proprietary filesystem to store photos in order to cut costs (up to now they’ve apparently been adding a $2 million NetApp storage system every week). It turns out they’ve decided they don’t need all the features you’d find in a traditional […]

  • Notes from BarCamp Oxford

    I’m exhausted, but I wanted to get some thoughts down about today’s BarCamp in Oxford before I crash. This was proof that there is an intelligent, proactive geek community in England, and that, with the right stimulus, is capable of some incredible stuff. That said, I suspect that with a few exceptions those in attendance […]