• Mongo on Hadoop

  At Foursquare, one of our most important pieces of data infrastructure is getting a copy of our production Mongo database into Hadoop. Today, we're open-sourcing two parts of this job, a utility to dump Mongo to Hadoop, and code to … Continue reading →

• QLogic, LSI, Seagate Contribute Storage Technology to Open Compute

  Leading technology providers QLogic, LSI, Seagate and Mellanox are contributing storage technology to the Open Compute Project, which is holding its Open Compute Summit this week in San Jose, Calif..

• How Next Big Sound Tracks Over a Trillion Song Plays, Likes, and More Using a Version Control System for Hadoop Data

  This is a guest post by  Eric Czech , Chief Architect at Next Big Sound, talks about some unique approaches taken to solving scalability challenges in music analytics. Tracking online activity is hardly a new idea, but doing it for the entire music industry isn't easy. Half a billion music…

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• What a computer sees while watching movies

  Benjamin Grosser visualized how computers "watch" movies through vision algorithms and artificial intelligence in Computers Watching Movies. Computers Watching Movies …

• Proxying User Images

  A while back, we started proxying all non-https images to avoid mixed-content warnings using a custom node server called camo . We're making a small change today and proxying HTTPS images as well. Proxying these images will help protect your privacy: your browser information won't be leaked…

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• Marry Amazon Kinesis and Storm Using the New Kinesis Storm Spout

  Amazon Kinesis is a fully managed service for real-time processing of streamed data at massive scale. When we launched Kinesis in November of 2013, we also introduced the Kinesis Client Library. You can use the client library to build applications...