Your humble author was pressed, by persons who shall remain nameless, to face his nervousness about public speaking and give a five-minute lightning talk on the NoSQL movement at CloudCamp London January 2010.

Unfortunately, the event was filmed.

Further material may appear in future on my SkillsMatter profile or my CloudBook profile.

Why the most ‘alternatively dressed‘ (and certainly not the most attractive) member of the team should be asked to become the public face of the company is anyone’s guess; less technical materials will probably appear at GenieDB’s CloudBook profile.

As we are a company producing a distributed database, it should be no surprise that we’re big fans of distributed systems.

“Distributed software”, in practice, means software that runs on multiple physical machines, connected by a network. This has many benefits to the user; generally, there is little or no dependency on central points of failure, meaning that the system can continue to operate (at least partially) in the event of failure of any given machine or network link.

But we like to eat our own dogfood, which is why we use git as our version control system, and are currently setting up a VPN with n2n for people who are working from home to connect securely.

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