It followed with BackType Connect, a service that allowed users to reserve lookup a URL to view comments written in response across the web.
[2] Before raising venture capital, BackType was nominated in the best bootstrapped startup category at the 2008 Crunchies.
[3] The distributed data processing work to build the BackType product became the basis for the Lambda architecture.
At its peak scale, BackType was storing 25 terabytes of compressed binary data on its servers, holding over 100 billion individual records.
[4] Apache Storm, a distributed stream processing computation framework written predominantly in the Clojure programming language was created at BackType, and later open sourced at Twitter.