Any other HN people going? There's a lot of really cool stuff in the AMP stack. I've trialed Spark a bit, and its promise of unifying batch and streaming computations under the same code base is very powerful. I'm also pretty excited about Mesos, especially as wider adoption smooths out the operational difficulties. And then there's the really far-out stuff like BlinkDB [0].<p>AMPlab's close interaction with industry seems like a rare model for a truly impactful research lab. It's become host to many of the most exciting developments in large scale computing in the past few years.<p>[0] <a href="http://blinkdb.org/" rel="nofollow">http://blinkdb.org/</a>