I recommend this talk if you're in the Bay Area and interested in distributed systems. Jay is great, and he really knows the stuff. Also, check out the Kafka d

I recommend this talk if you're in the Bay Area and interested in distributed systems. Jay is great, and he really knows the stuff. Also, check out the Kafka design document. It's an excellent read: http://incubator.apache.org/kafka/design.html http://incubator.apache.org/kafka/design.html