Leaving Twitter

http://nathanmarz.com/blog/leaving-twitter.html

by ananthrk • 13 years ago

138 22 13 years ago

niggler• 13 years ago

I hate to be that guy, but who is Nathan Marz?

dpritchett2• 13 years ago

One of the more commercially successful figures in the Clojure world. Early employee of a YC company (Backtype) with a successful exit to Twitter.

[1] http://www.crunchbase.com/company/backtype

[2] https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm

jgrahamc• 13 years ago

You are not alone in wondering.

tlrobinson• 13 years ago

From TFA:

"I open-sourced Cascalog, ElephantDB, and Storm, started writing a book, gave a lot of talks, and in July of 2011 experienced the thrill of being acquired. My projects spread beyond BackType and Twitter to be relied on by dozens and dozens of companies."

He's pretty well known on HN. "Hacker-News-famous", you could say.

TallGuyShort• 13 years ago

Among other things, he leads Storm (where I know his name from). It's a tool for processing unbounded streams of data (think Mappers and Reducers for Twitter Firehose-style datasets).

calibraxis2• 13 years ago

His talk "Become Efficient or Die" (not currently on his talks page) is very insightful: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDT8OH1x28E&playnext=1...) Most startups I know lack many of the most important things he mentions.

(I realize I probably shouldn't respond to this question, which would have been satisfied by simply reading the link. But it gave me an excuse to post this talk.)

sergiosgc• 13 years ago

I absolutely loathe videos. There went 15 minutes of my life to get a short message: be minimalistic in processes and code. Not that it isn't a good message, but hardly worth more than the ten seconds needed to scan it in text.

toisanji• 13 years ago

I use cascalog and storm everyday at my startup http://truelens.com and they are great contributions to software and big data systems. I'm looking forward to what Nathan is cooking up next.

teraflop• 13 years ago

The new title, "Leaving Twitter", is much less descriptive than the previous one, "Nathan Marz is leaving Twitter". Could someone please change it back?

michaelhoffman• 13 years ago

I don't understand why Hacker News allows us to submit titles with our links. If they are just going to be overridden, then the software should automatically fetch the title from the web page without user input.

mkr-hn• 13 years ago

I wouldn't mind so much if it were accountable. There's no mechanism to challenge a title change. Between that and the arbitrary banning of sites, I usually think twice about submitting good things.

crandles• 13 years ago

Funny, I see "Leaving Twitter (nathanmarz.com)". That's pretty descriptive.

catharsis• 13 years ago

I had no idea who Nathan Marz was. When I saw the title, I assumed "Leaving Twitter" was implying discontinuing usage of Twitter from an outsider's perspective, not an employee parting ways with the company. The original title is completely unambiguous.

ananthrk• 13 years ago

I agree. I am the original poster and I expanded the title to make it more clear. But looks like the mods don't see it that way.

diego• 13 years ago

I can't wait to find out what Nathan has in store. I'm not a fan of Twitter's mission, I hope he continues building useful infrastructure that's not directly influenced by the need to show more ads to more people.

danbmil99• 13 years ago

Oh I thought it was some random tweeter closing his account. That would be news.

hrishikeshio• 13 years ago

Am a big fan of storm. Can't wait to see what he is onto.

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