As I think I’ve written before, Werner Vogels is a very sharp guy. His take on Twitter, after a few beers, was: “This is a hard problem. All the people who are smaller than them are telling them how to fix it. And all the people bigger than them are staying quiet, because they’ve been there before.”

The always-incisive Register opined about this beautifully, and it’s a great read. Hadoop is Real Software By Real Programmers. I try not to post about what other people write, because there’s enough copying on blogs. But this one’s worth the pointer.

“those who [use Hadoop in practice] don’t write about it. Why? Because they’re adults who don’t care about getting on the front page of Digg.”