Ben Lorica dropped in on HBaseCon and had a few cogent observations. Sounded like the tribal gathering of a smart, growing community around a core component of the Hadoop ecosystem:
HBase and HDFS: Past, Present, and Future: In a conference centered around a piece of technology, you need an overview of new and upcoming features. HBase and HDFS committer Todd Lipcon gave a good survey centered around reliability, availability and durability. I particularly appreciated the summary table at the end of his talk (I’ll post that table once Todd’s slides become available).