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Lorenzo Alberton
Technical Architect, Open Source contributor, Zend PHP5 Certified Engineer, International Conference Speaker
Welcome to my personal website, where you can find some info about my projects, and some useful tutorials and articles on Scalability, NoSQL databases, PHP, Zend Framework, on PostgreSQL, Firebird SQL, Oracle, SQL Server and other Relational DBMS.
You can find more about me in my profile page, read my CV on LinkedIn 
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Latest articles
On batching vs. latency, and jobqueue models
A little journey exploring job queue models and debunking some programming folklore around the effects of batching on latency.
Updated Kafka PHP client library
New PHP client library for the Apache Kafka project.
Full support for Kafka 0.7+, with robust socket handling, complete test suite, Zookeeper-based consumer and many other improvements.
Musings on some technical papers I read this weekend: Google Dremel, NoSQL comparison, Gossip Protocols
Some random comments on Dremel and a benchmark on Key-Value stores. How to evaluate technical papers and read between the lines.
Historical Twitter access - A journey into optimising Hadoop jobs
A journey into optimising Hadoop jobs: the strategies to scan and filter a PetaByte of archived data, schedule new jobs and deliver data fast.
Kafka proposed as Apache incubator project
Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system developed at LinkedIn, designed to support a very high throughput, persistent messages and parallel loading into Hadoop. A proposal has been submitted to make Kafka an Apache incubator project.
NoSQL Databases: What, When and Why (PHPUK2011)
Some considerations about NoSQL databases, and slides of my talk given at PHPUK 2011: "NoSQL Databases: What, When and Why".
PHPNW10 slides and new job!
Summary of the PHPNW10 conference, Slides about my talk "Profile your PHP application and make it fly" and new job!
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Lorenzo Alberton
Lorenzo has been working with large enterprise UK companies for the past 10+ years and is currently CTO at DataSift.
He's an international conference speaker and a long-time contributor to many open source projects.
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