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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 …
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How to Find a Journalism Job (That’s Not in a Newsroom)
One of the overriding issues affecting the current writers’ market is the need for traditional newsrooms and media organizations to …