Is this Silicon Valley or Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
Over the last 18 months or so, this question has become tougher to answer as a flood of products with names like Voldemort, Hadoop and Cassandra have appeared on the scene.
They are part of a new wave of highly specialized technology -- both software and hardware -- built by and for Web titans like Facebook, Yahoo and Google to help them break data into bite-size chunks, and present their Web pages as quickly and cheaply as possible, even while grappling with increasing volumes of data. Facebook, for example, created Cassandra to store and search through all the messages in people's in-boxes.
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