Someone gave a talk on HBase at barcamp NYC, here's a tweet: http://twitter.com/ggodik/statuses/1974136991
We should see what kind of support we can give to this and other random speakers. With the publishing of 1304 and 0.20-rc (we'll get there soon!) there will at the final word in hbase performance (for a little while). in the mean time, looking forward to: - HDFS fixes for block not found - HDFS sync fixes (in 0.21)
