The Engineer Who Built Facebook's Massive Data Infrastructure

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I realize that both of these companies are private, but is there a way to learn more about how company "splits" like this are structured?

The article implies that Hammerbacher left Facebook before starting Cloudera... is that actually true? I imagine that Facebook might have said, "Whoa, hang on now -- you wouldn't have gained that experience anywhere else. We want a piece of Cloudera!"

Companies can't "own" the experience you gain as part of your career, otherwise you'd never be able to leave any job and continue with the same career/skills. The only potential issues would be if the new company is in the exact same industry and market as the old one, then you might hove some non-compete issues to worry about. However, most of those are not enforceable.

"Cloudera builds something called Hadoop"

Umm... no mention of Doug Cutting or Yahoo?

Doug Cutting works at Cloudera. Also, this is non-tech media reporting on tech so if they are even sort-of correct then good for them.

In Hammerbacher's technical talks, he's clear on the lineage of Hadoop. It's just the limits of the interview medium.

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