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This Team Used Apache Cassandra… You Won’t Believe What Happened Next
You know that old saying, “If it seems too good to be true, it probably is?” We technologists should probably …
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Grokking Python Event Loops and Concurrency with Apache Cassandra
Python offers a number of different concurrency models, including multi-threading, process pools, and cooperative multitasking around an async event loop. …
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Engaged Journalism: Lessons From Professor Jake Batsell
Jake Batsell’s research as a professor has always leaned toward the nuts and bolts of journalism; while other professors taught …
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The data behind the average article lifespan
The fast pace of online content means that often an article or post barely makes its way through the CMS …
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Pay-What-You-Will, and Other Paywall Solutions for Online Media
Giving away the work of news and publishing companies online has been called “the original sin” of the internet. Since …
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Kafkapocalypse: a postmortem on our service outage
On Thur, Mar 26 2015 and Fri, Mar 27 2015, Parse.ly experienced several outages of its data processing backend. The …
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Where Can You Learn More About Data Journalism?
Data literacy has quickly become one of the most important skills for journalists to acquire due to the vast accumulations …
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Lucene: The Good Parts
Before MongoDB, before Cassandra, before “NoSQL”, there was Lucene. Did you know that Doug Cutting wrote the first versions of …
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Why I’m Excited About The New Republic Fund Investing in Parse.ly
As the CEO of a software technology start-up, there are a few big names out there that you look up …