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Welcome Sam Ritchie as new Cascalog committer groups.google.com/group/casc…
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Added support for Fancy to @backtype's Storm (distributed real-time computation system). Now you can write Storm jobs in Fancy :)
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Spark, a superset of MapReduce and Pregel, is the future of batch processing. I got a demo today and was blown away. bit.ly/mHJoEO
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The Secrets of Building Realtime Big Data Systems, Video: Slides:
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The dark side of Hadoop
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Calculate your GitHub hacker score http://j.mp/esfNcW
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how do I love the combination of cascalog & clojure? let me count the ways: (iterate inc 1)
hardcore hackathon @backtype HQ
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Nice! @neil_conway et al release implementation of Bloom, a high level language for building distributed systems.
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some simple bash functions for manipulating Amazon Elastic MapReduce clusters from the command line github.com/cwensel/bash-emr #hadoop #aws
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Facebook's "Open Compute Project": Their Server/Datacenter Expertise Now Open To All http://tcrn.ch/dR2DEZ by @parislemon
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Lots of great tech and architecture details by @krishnagade "Twitter Search is Now 3x Faster" engineering.twitter.com/2011… via @twittereng
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From the @BackType Beta: Most popular presentations today on @slideshare http://bit.ly/i6Yzs8
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Cascalog Made Easier jimdrannbauer.com/2011/02/04…
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Just attended excellent #POSSCON session with Nathan Marz of BackType. I'll be watching this company closely. Fascinating analytics.
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Cascalog now supports negations, and they're beautiful http://bit.ly/haT3la
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Just open-sourced some code for using Thrift objects natively with Cascading or Cascalog http://bit.ly/fGbN43
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all core @cascading unit tests now run without #hadoop. one more milestone closer to #cascading2
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If you're interested in Python mock libraries check out the comparison here http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/mock/compare.html