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Kafka proposed as Apache incubator project
Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system developed at LinkedIn, designed to support a very high throughput, persistent messages and parallel loading into Hadoop. A proposal has been submitted to make Kafka an Apache incubator project.
NoSQL Databases: What, When and Why (PHPUK2011)
Some considerations about NoSQL databases, and slides of my talk given at PHPUK 2011: "NoSQL Databases: What, When and Why".
PHPNW10 slides and new job!
Summary of the PHPNW10 conference, Slides about my talk "Profile your PHP application and make it fly" and new job!
The Art of Scalability - DPC10 wrapup
A wrapup of the Dutch PHP Conference 2010.
Uploaded slides of my talk "The Art of Scalability - Managing growth".
Profiling PHP applications with XHProf: the path to scalability
My latest article on Profiling using XHProf, a neat tool developed at Facebook. A step-by-step tutorial to install and use XHProf, and some useful hints on how to improve performances and scalability of your PHP application.
Lorenzo Alberton
Lorenzo 
has been working with large enterprise UK companies for the past years and is now Chief Tech Architect at DataSift.
He's an international conference speaker and a long-time contributor to many open source projects.
