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Posted to dev@avro.apache.org by Matt Massie <ma...@cloudera.com> on 2010/04/30 02:16:13 UTC

We need a "boilerplate" copy for our project

I need a 150 word description of the Avro project as part of us becoming
a TLP.  If I don't hear from anyone, I'll just go ahead and write one
myself.  I wanted to check if anyone already had something more than we
put on our docs page. 

Also, what high-profile users can we publicly talk about?

Thanks
-Matt
 

Here is an example from Cassandra:

About Apache Cassandra

Apache Cassandra is an advanced, second-generation "NoSQL" distributed
data store that has a shared-nothing architecture. The Cassandra
decentralized model provides massive scalability, and is highly
available with no single point of failure even under the worst
scenarios. Originally developed at Facebook and submitted to the ASF
Incubator in 2009, Cassandra graduated as a Top-Level Apache Project in
February 2010, added more than a half-dozen new committers, and is
deployed by dozens of high-profile users such as Cisco WebEx, Cloudkick,
Digg, Facebook, Rackspace, Reddit, and Twitter, among others.

Re: We need a "boilerplate" copy for our project

Posted by Matt Massie <ma...@cloudera.com>.
I was going to send that originally but I was concerned the bullet
formatting might not survive.  I was also hoping we could list some
happy customers.  I'll just send this for now.

-Matt

On 4/29/10 5:27 PM, Doug Cutting wrote:
> From:
>
> http://hadoop.apache.org/avro/docs/current/api/java/overview-summary.html
>
> Avro provides:
>
>     * Rich data structures.
>     * A compact, fast, binary data format.
>     * A container file, to store persistent data.
>     * Remote procedure call (RPC).
>     * Simple integration with dynamic languages. Code generation is
>       not required to read or write data files nor to use or
>       implement RPC protocols. Code generation as an optional
>       optimization, only worth implementing for statically typed
>       languages.
>
> Doug
>
> Matt Massie wrote:
>> I need a 150 word description of the Avro project as part of us becoming
>> a TLP.  If I don't hear from anyone, I'll just go ahead and write one
>> myself.  I wanted to check if anyone already had something more than we
>> put on our docs page.
>> Also, what high-profile users can we publicly talk about?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -Matt
>>  
>>
>> Here is an example from Cassandra:
>>
>> About Apache Cassandra
>>
>> Apache Cassandra is an advanced, second-generation "NoSQL" distributed
>> data store that has a shared-nothing architecture. The Cassandra
>> decentralized model provides massive scalability, and is highly
>> available with no single point of failure even under the worst
>> scenarios. Originally developed at Facebook and submitted to the ASF
>> Incubator in 2009, Cassandra graduated as a Top-Level Apache Project in
>> February 2010, added more than a half-dozen new committers, and is
>> deployed by dozens of high-profile users such as Cisco WebEx, Cloudkick,
>> Digg, Facebook, Rackspace, Reddit, and Twitter, among others.
>>
>>
>>

Re: We need a "boilerplate" copy for our project

Posted by Doug Cutting <cu...@apache.org>.
From:

http://hadoop.apache.org/avro/docs/current/api/java/overview-summary.html

Avro provides:

     * Rich data structures.
     * A compact, fast, binary data format.
     * A container file, to store persistent data.
     * Remote procedure call (RPC).
     * Simple integration with dynamic languages. Code generation is
       not required to read or write data files nor to use or
       implement RPC protocols. Code generation as an optional
       optimization, only worth implementing for statically typed
       languages.

Doug

Matt Massie wrote:
> I need a 150 word description of the Avro project as part of us becoming
> a TLP.  If I don't hear from anyone, I'll just go ahead and write one
> myself.  I wanted to check if anyone already had something more than we
> put on our docs page. 
> 
> Also, what high-profile users can we publicly talk about?
> 
> Thanks
> -Matt
>  
> 
> Here is an example from Cassandra:
> 
> About Apache Cassandra
> 
> Apache Cassandra is an advanced, second-generation "NoSQL" distributed
> data store that has a shared-nothing architecture. The Cassandra
> decentralized model provides massive scalability, and is highly
> available with no single point of failure even under the worst
> scenarios. Originally developed at Facebook and submitted to the ASF
> Incubator in 2009, Cassandra graduated as a Top-Level Apache Project in
> February 2010, added more than a half-dozen new committers, and is
> deployed by dozens of high-profile users such as Cisco WebEx, Cloudkick,
> Digg, Facebook, Rackspace, Reddit, and Twitter, among others.
> 
> 
>