It
was April 2005 when I started this blog. I was a Java-Oracle
developer and I was at the begin of my career as team leader at virgilio.it,
at that time # 1 Italian web portal. I was amazed by what at the time
was an incoming revolution, the Web 2.0. I read and read again the
article by Tim O'Really about Web 2.0.
Starting a blog or just trying to start it seemed a mandatory step. The
following mandatory step was becoming the fonder of an open source
project. So, Pippoproxy was born, a 100 percent pure Java HTTP proxy designed/implemented for Tomcat that can be used instead of standard Apache-Tomcat
solutions.
It
was before my MBA and my incursion in the private equity arena where I
must confess I lost a bit the touch for technology and the attraction
for SEXY TECHNOLOGY. I started to find sexy discounted cash flows Excel
models or amazing PowerPoint presentations aimed to convince investors
to put money on some fund or listed company. Again, the more the time
passed the more I was convinced that nothing new was under the sun.
Java, PHP, Apache projects ... the same stuff again and again...
Now
I know I was wrong. Exactly at that time Hadoop was born as well as other other innovative open source projects. A new revolution, nowadays
known with the buzzword Big Data, was born. Now I feel as excited as at
that time. The same excitement of when I discovered a hack ... the same
excitement of when I was child and I realized a program to predict
football matches with my mythical Commodore Vic 20. Just for fun!
In
the next posts I'm going to analyze tools, open source projects,
algorithms, statistical methods, products and I'll give them a 1-5
score. No strict methodology, no committees, just personal judgment.
Just for fun!
