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The other day, during an eye exam at my optometrist’s office, I mentioned that I occasionally experienced redness in my inner eye. He knew I was a software engineer and spent most of my work…
The other day, during an eye exam at my optometrist’s office, I mentioned that I occasionally experienced redness in my inner eye. He knew I was a software engineer and spent most of my work…
Author: Hunter Blanks The prior post announced some early spot instance support for boto’s EMR library, and it’s my pleasure in the current one to announce what would appear to be full support for spot…
Author: Hunter Blanks Last week, Amazon announced new support for using spot instances with Elastic MapReduce — a pretty exciting thing, when you consider that EC2 spot instances typically run for less than half the…
By: Tom Janofsky Here at Monetate we’re big fans of PivotalTracker and we use it to manage all of our features, defects, and requests. We like to do some additional automated reporting on this data.…
By: Tom Janofsky Attached are the slides for a talk I gave on writing MapReduce programs in Python with mrjob at the Philly Python User’s Group on 4/12/2011. Enjoy! mrjob.pdf Download this file
We’ve talked a lot at Monetate about how to best promote more open source development, particularly in the Philadelphia area. So, today we’re announcing the Monetate Open Source Prize – a contest to find and…
Just a heads up that I will be giving a talk Tuesday night at the Philly Python User’s Group on MapReduce in Python with mrjob. http://www.meetup.com/phillypug/events/17035298/ Tom Janofsky
If you’re in town or attending any Philly Tech Week events – please try to join us at Triumph Brewing Co.on Wednesday April 27th from 8:30-10:30PM. Register at: http://tapoverflow.eventbrite.com/ Hope to see you there!
We’re looking for a few good interns! Join Monetate Engineering for the summer and dig deep on a project and help ship some code! Details and application information is here.
Author: Hunter Blanks, hblanks@monetate.com On February 23rd at PhillyAWS, Keith Fitzgerald of TicketLeap gave a great presentation on their recent experience serving hundreds to thousands of ticket-buying fans. The core of his talk covered how…