“Clustrix has built a truly impressive Clustered Database System from which Internet-scale businesses can benefit,” said Heiliger in a statement.
He should know.
Heiliger currently oversees Facebook’s global infrastructure and IT systems, a position he once held as head of engineering at Walmart.com, which is why he will make an ideal Clustrix adviser. In the past, he advised “several early-stage companies in connection with Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital,” according to his Facebook bio.
CEO Paul Mikesell, who previously co-founded successful CDS company Isilon Systems, says Clustrix builds infrastructure for those companies handling a serious amount of data, like those involved in “big travel, e-commerce, and social websites.”
Having a stable and scalable infrastructure is absolutely fundamental to building a successful online service in the long-term. That sounds more obvious than it might actually be. Twitter, for example, is now infamous for suffering severe outages in mid-2009, when the microblogging site’s rocketing popularity reached a fever pitch. A year later, the site has mostly resolved its stability issues and luckily didn’t seem to lose many users in the process.
Clustrix is a San Francisco-based graduate of Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator’s 2006 class.