I went to a seminar back in 2005ish on Big Table the jist was logarithmic hierarchical breakdown of your data set over a vastly distributed network of computers. It actually wasn’t as interesting as I expected. I like the topic of map-reduce a little more. I’ll consider these other topics but I prefer to write on subjects that I have experience with. While I’m familiar with all of these topics I don’t have first hand experience to fall back on and the last thing I want to do is disseminate false information.

I’ve considered investigating #1 so look out for that topic at some point, but I still find building, optimizing, and fine-tuning systems to be pretty fun.

I think a writeup on CDNs like Akamai might be in order as well if traffic continues to grow.

Thanks a lot!

-J

1) Databases in Cloud
2) Hypertable, Google’s Bigtable, Apache’s HBase and Amazon’s Dynamo
3) Web OS – Your Desktop on Cloud ( ex. http://eyeos.org/ )