heh. I attended Jonathan Gray's talk at Hadoop World this year (which was pretty good!) and he talked a lot about Facebook's infrastructure. Gray has been a pri

heh. I attended Jonathan Gray's talk at Hadoop World this year (which was pretty good!) and he talked a lot about Facebook's infrastructure. Gray has been a primary committer on the HBase project for a while (since inception?) and I remember people somewhat teasing that HBase was kind of the pet project of the NoSQL world. I've had fun hacking on it off and on myself. Gray amusingly said that HBase was being prepped for production in a huge way, but he couldn't give any details. Well, I guess we know now! Definitely looking forward to all the future developments of HBase. There are a lot of interesting contribs being made.