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Lorenzo Alberton

CTO and Technical Architect, Open Source contributor, International Conference Speaker, Startup mentor.

Welcome to my personal website, where you can find some info about my work and open-source projects, and read some useful tutorials and articles on Scalability, NoSQL databases, PHP, and Relational DBMS like PostgreSQL, Firebird SQL, Oracle and SQL Server.

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On batching vs. latency, and jobqueue models

Data structures, Performance, Scalability, Message Queues    14 November 2012
A little journey exploring job queue models and debunking some programming folklore around the effects of batching on latency.

Updated Kafka PHP client library

Apache, Scalability, Message Queues, Kafka    18 September 2012
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

Database, Data structures, Performance, Scalability, NoSQL    3 September 2012
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

Data structures, Performance, Scalability, Hadoop    7 August 2012
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

PHP, Performance, Scalability, NoSQL, Message Queues, Kafka    24 June 2011
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)

Database, Data structures, Performance, Scalability, NoSQL    27 February 2011
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!

PHP, Zend Framework, Apache, Performance, Scalability, Profiling    19 October 2010
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 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. Lorenzo Alberton's profile on GitHub Lorenzo Alberton's profile on LinkedIN View Lorenzo Alberton's profile on PHP PEAR
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