Chris Mattmann is a Software Engineer at NASA's JPL. He's the VP of OODT in the Apache Software Foundation and an adjunct professor at USC.

OODT is a framework for managing data from multiple sources and adding them to other data sources for different purposes (like a database and a search engine.) It manages hundreds of thousands of job in a day and terabytes or petabytes of data from various sources.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Apache OODT
• Nutch
• Hadoop
• Apache Software Foundation
• NASA
• NASA JPL
• ftp
• sftp
• Solr
• Lucene
• Hive
• File Catalog vs Search Engine
• Tika
• Goodle
• Project Management was the hard part
• Assume that failure happens and recover quickly
• Ganglia
• Torque
• PBS
• struts
• IDL
• CHLA (Childrens Hospital of LA)
• VPICU
• OODT Contact page (info on mailing lists, etc.)