Weka.IO – a stealthy startup swimming against the tide

Liran Zvibel sits across the table from me in a Tel Aviv restaurant eating pork chops. This is a man who doesn't mind going against the grain. He's co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Weka.IO, a stealthy startup that is swimming against two perceived tides. Storage folklore these days says that file systems generally can …

[Korev]

Wikipedia says it's a flightless bird from New Zealand, but that seems to be the wrong kind of idea. or the name of a widely-used machine learning toolkit.

[Anonymous Coward]

IO is pretty obvious as well. That's for the British Indian Ocean Territories. So it's about machine learning on Diego Garcia?

[Anonymous Coward]

Could we have a new section?

Call it "PRESS RELEASES" and just dump all this stuff in there. If you need to make space you could just get rid of "DEVOPS".

[Howard Hanek]

Salmon

Those salmon reminds me of the fate that awaits most startup investors......

[Anonymous Coward]

D programming language

There is yet another dimension where Weka.IO swims against the stream - the core of their product is developed in the D programming language.

Such programming language choice presents both opportunities (D is indeed a cool and very expressive language) and risks (D is not yet 100% mature).