<p>I happened to run across a new open-source project today I had not previously heard about: <a href="http://www.hazelcast.com/">Hazelcast</a>.</p>

<p>I had the good fortune to attend a talk given by <a href="http://www.kernelthread.com/">Amit Singh</a> at the <a href="http://www.seattlexcoders.org/">Seattle Xcoders</a> meeting held in the Google offices in Fremont.</p>