Hadoop lets you store everything; with Lucene/Solr and more | Javalobby

Eric Baldeschwieler, Keynote speaker at Apache Lucene Eurocon 2011 in Barcelona last week, predicts that 50% of the world’s data will be stored on Hadoop within 5 years

Interesting article on the key role search (Lucene/Solr) plays in a Big Data architecture.

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The Must-Have Leadership Skill - Daniel Goleman - Harvard Business Review

Why does social intelligence emerge as the make-or-break leadership skill set? For one, leadership is the art of accomplishing goals through other people.

Something I find hard at times but I think I am getting better with as I gain more experience and insight into how others approach problems.

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