The wickedly smart UW Phd student, Aaron Kimball, will be hosting a talk on cloud computing at the end of April at Google’s Fremont (Seattle area, not California) campus. The talk will include some good discussion on Hadoop, the open source project that aims to democratize Internet scale computing. Hadoop is the open source equivalent of Google’s proprietary key technologies – GFS, MapReduce and BigTable.  The primary contributors to Hadoop are exceptionally capable engineers from Yahoo and Powerset.

I highly encourage you to sign up for the talk. If you just can’t wait to play with Hadoop including HBase, you could always introduce yourself to blist and we might be able to find some way to get you involved in what we’re building. If you’re like our engineers, you’d rather dig in and get your hands dirty. We’re looking for smart folks thinking about challenges at Internet scale.