Archive 21. September 2011

storm auf GitHub. Twitter has published its distributed event system as open source. Sounds very interesting - basically a load-distributed and fault-tolerant RPC dispatcher with a guarantee of execution for each event. Generally interesting where you need to process high events/sec - Storm offers easy scaling as needed by simply adding new nodes. And it's also quite independent of the programming languages used (Ruby and Python are already on board as additional languages besides JVM languages).

Nikon Announces J1 and V1 Mirrorless Cameras and New Lens System. Nikon is steadily building the second smallest interchangeable lens camera system. I mean, is it really something to strive for to be the eternal second? Nikon claims to be the smallest, but the Pentax Q is actually a bit smaller. Oh, and Nikon only achieves this small size by using chips below m4/3 - with a 2.7x crop factor, Nikon no longer has to worry about the usually terrible bokeh of Nikon - you can't see much of it anyway there (okay, it's a bit better than the 5.7x "crop factor" of the Pentax Q system - but it's only the second smallest). If this is Nikon's big move, the big answer to the EVIL market, well.