Eugene Marinelli and I just gave a Stanford ACM tech talk about our use of HBase, Scala, and Hadoop at Blend Labs. The goal of the talk was to give back some of the code and patterns we’ve developed for working with high-level, modeled objects in Scala, storing (serializing and deserializing) the objects in HBase, and performing Hadoop MapReduce analysis on large datasets. We’ve posted the slides and code online.