New Slots Available for Spire Beta
January 14, 2012
With the continued growth of the DTS team, there is more room available in the current Spire beta. Our new deployment and data ingestion systems make getting up-to-speed a snap.
Please contact spire@drawntoscale.com if you would like to learn more.
Ryan Rawson joins Drawn to Scale
September 12, 2011
Ryan Rawson has joined Drawn to Scale as VP of Engineering. He is one of the key architects of HBase, and has a long history of distributed systems and databases. Formerly, he created the latest iteration of the StumbleUpon platform, built a competitor to DoubleClick at Google, and designed distributed logic systems at Amazon.
Ryan holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia.
DTS Team Grows Again
June 1, 2011
The Drawn to Scale team has grown to five employees, with the addition of another engineer. DTS is currently in "stealth mode", so the company is not disclosing the employees yet. The DTS team includes pioneering employees from Google, Digg, Amazon, Microsoft, and more.
Bradford Stephens quoted: "We now have some of the most brilliant minds in distributed systems engineering. We have exactly the only people who can build Spire, and our growth continues to accelerate."
CEO Stephens named co-chair of OSCON
Apr 7, 2011
Bradford Stephens was recently named the co-chair of OSCON Data, a new data infrastructure conference. The conference will be taking place at the same time as the prestigious OSCON. OSCON Data is combining the best of SQL, NoSQL, and distributed worlds.
"OSCON is one of the most legendary conferences, and I'm proud to have the opportunity to accelerate its growth.", said Bradford. "I feel that there is a need for one conference to handle the bottom-up, nuts-and-bolts adoption of data infrastructure."
Drawn to Scale wins Strata Startup Competition
Mar 6, 2011
Drawn to Scale was voted "crowd favorite" among the startups at the O'Reilly Strata Startup Competition. An audience of hundreds decided on the most innovative data-driven technologies of the coming year. CEO Bradford Stephens remarked,
"We're thrilled to have this early validation from a group of technically savvy folks. Strata is one of the most forward-looking conferences, and it's exciting to see the impact of Big Data and our customers among many verticals. "
Webcast with O'Reilly: Decreasing the Pain in Building Distributed Systems
Jan 12, 2011
Drawn to Scale Founder and CEO, Bradford Stephens, will be doing a live Webcast with O'Reilly in preparation for Strata.
"Building distributed systems is painful. Many organizations are approaching the point where their data and application infrastructures are being run on many servers (in the cloud or datacenter). Our software practices don't reflect that, often with disastrous results. This talk is a collection of scalability principles, anecdotes and practices from experts (and personal experience) from engineering, operations, and business perspectives."
Drawn to Scale featured on O'Reilly Radar
Jan 4, 2011
Drawn to Scale was recently featured on O'Reilly Radar, an influential news site.
"Stephens calls [Spire's] speed "user time" and he credits Drawn to Scale's performance to its indexing system working in parallel with backend batch tools. Like other big data tools, Drawn to Scale uses MapReduce and Hadoop for batch processing on the back end. But on the front end, a series of secondary indices on top of the storage layer speed up retrieval. "We find that when you index data in the manner in which you wish to use it, it's basically one single call to the disk to access it," Stephens says. "So it can be extremely fast."