October 30th, 2008
CIO Sessions: Technorati VP of engineering: Dorion Carroll
In this episode of CIO Sessions, Dorion Carroll, vice president of engineering for Technorati, talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about the challenges with scaling operations as the blogosphere continues to grow. He also discusses how they’re able to index millions of blog posts in near real time, surviving the economic downturn and what differentiates the company from its biggest competitor, Google.
2 minute Video Shorts
Short on time? Check out our summary shorts of the interview.
- Serving up sub-second responses
- Sifting through Splogs
- Elastic servers reduce costs during weekend downtime
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