hummingbird

I'd love to see a demo. Ever since I saw hummingbird's demo of real time traffic analysis I've wanted to write real time analytics. I'd love to see this one rolling (even a video) I'll be looking forward to their "part two" where they go on about architecture. They're really managing 1B hits/s ? Or they have a historical data of a billion hits and can parse it in a second ? (for anyone who hasn't seen hummingbird http://demo.hummingbirdstats.com/ and it's on github https://github.com/mnutt/hummingbird)

According to their tech talk about building it (http://www.slideshare.net/mongosf/real-time-ecommerce-analyt...), the original goal was to collect real time data to use in picking products for their gift page. I also heard that the other driving force behind building it was to have a visual way to show visitors to their office what Gilt's noon traffic spike really looks like/means. The core part is under the MIT license on github (https://github.com/mnutt/hummingbird) so it could easily be picked up by some of the other packages out there.