Re: Google Protocol Buffers - structured binary data

2008-07-09 Thread hank williams
Has anyone looked at facebook thrift: http://developers.facebook.com/thrift/ It seems to do essentially the same thing as protocol buffer and I am curious if anyone has looked at either or both and has any thoughts. We need a solution for fast server to server communications and so any insight

Re: Hadoop future?

2008-02-01 Thread hank williams
It is essentially impossible for me to conceive of Microsoft pulling Yahoo out of hadoop. Microsoft is blind. Yahoo is somewhat less blind, at least as it relates to the internet. Part of what Microsoft has stated is that they want the engineers from yahoo. How much sense would it make to suggest