database

Stu Hood (@stuhood) is the Technical Lead for the Search team in the Email & Apps division of Rackspace. He also is a contributor to the Apache Cassandra project, which is a new distributed database project. Cassandra has gained some notoriety lately due to its prominent use at Facebook, no stranger to problems of scale.

Mike Dirolf (@mdirolf) will be speaking at the Strange Loop conference about the non-relational database MongoDB. Michael works on MongoDB, specifically on the Python and Ruby client drivers.