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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In my attempt to build credibility and recruit people for my little company, I had started the Pittsburgh Java Users Group (the PittJUG today has close to 500 members!). Technology leadership and innovation knows no bounds. Besides I was a young, first-time entrepreneur at the age of 23. There are smart people all over the world.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

We have already released an Apache Zookeeper interface called Curator at Github and also plan to release a Java client library called Astyanax (the son of Hector, who was Cassandras brother, and Hector is also the name of a commonly used Java client library for Cassandra that we have improved upon). Netflix America Latina.

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