As you probably know I’m always looking at how companies in our space do their stuff. A few days ago Ted Dziuba provided some interesting information on the Kosmix backend, which I found through Josh Young’s nice “What I’m Reading” feed:
…Kosmix… wrote its own data store in C++. It’s basically a clone of Google’s GFS…
After I edited out the snark and obscenities, that was all that’s left of his post. The rest of it, calling them a search engine, would only rankle the Kosmix co-founders. Dziuba is an interesting read, and he has a good sense of humor. But he’s never going to make it as a pro linebacker. He’s just too small and weak. He needs to spend less time at the keyboard and more at the gym, and get his hands on some steroids.
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