I’m so impressed …
Readers of this blog may remember the brilliant and gracious Apostolis Giannakidis, who I wrote about on August 21, 2012. Apostolis tweeted some kind words about my book when he announced to the world that he nailed the Oracle SQL Expert exam with a 93 percent passing score – far in excess of what is required to establish certification! I blogged about his tweet here, and he found my post and commented about it here.
So today I looked at his own blog, which is linked from his comment. And WOW – Apostolis is joining the Google Summer of Code 2013 to help integrate Apache Gora with Oracle NoSQL. This is huge stuff, folks, Apache is where all the cool cutting edge open source envelope-pushing is happening, and Gora is the project for big data persistence and in-memory data model support. Gora is related to other cool Apache projects, like Cassandra. Extremely cool work, and Apostolis is right in the middle of it all.
Congratulations Apostolis!