Three months ago I attended the NoSQL matters conference in Barcelona. The keynote speaker was Nathan Marz. Nathan is the creator of Storm, an open source real-time processing framework on top of which I’ve leveraged heavy scaling in the past 1.5 year. His blog is motivating (it’s probably the reason I started this blog) and he writes a new book on Big Data. So overall, I had solid reasons I wanted to meet and discuss with a person I admire. Continue Reading