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Voldemort in the Wild

February 02, 2010

At kaChing, we’ve tried to embraced as much of the lean startup methodology as possible. In keeping with the spirit, we’ve worked to scale our infrastructure smartly, using data to drive our decisions and discarding speculation. As part of our infrastructure, we’ve embraced Project Voldemort as a highly performant and reliable data store. One experiment… Read more

Speeding up with Voldemort and Protobuf

October 12, 2009

In order to supply some of the analytics behind kaChing we have a some nice number crunching processes working over piles of financial data. The end results are displayed on the site (e.g. the find investors page). The post is about one of such services which for the sake of this post we’ll refer to… Read more