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Delivering New Historical Analytics
by Andrew Montalenti September 18, 2015In the past few weeks, our backend engineering team has been hard at work back-populating historical data in Parse.ly’s new…
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Dashboard Search
by Andrew Montalenti August 7, 2015The Parse.ly product team is always hard at work delivering new features for our users. This blog post highlights a…
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This Team Used Apache Cassandra… You Won’t Believe What Happened Next
by Andrew Montalenti May 6, 2015You 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
by Andrew Montalenti April 22, 2015Python offers a number of different concurrency models, including multi-threading, process pools, and cooperative multitasking around an async event loop.…
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Kafkapocalypse: a postmortem on our service outage
by Andrew Montalenti March 31, 2015On Thur, Mar 26 2015 and Fri, Mar 27 2015, Parse.ly experienced several outages of its data processing backend. The…
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Lucene: The Good Parts
by Andrew Montalenti March 12, 2015Before MongoDB, before Cassandra, before “NoSQL”, there was Lucene. Did you know that Doug Cutting wrote the first versions of…
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Mage: The Magical Time Series Backend Behind Parse.ly Analytics
by Andrew Montalenti February 5, 2015Building a time series engine is hard. Beyond the typical database management problems of data distribution, fault tolerance, and read/write…
Analytics That Matter
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Loving a Log-Oriented Architecture
by Andrew Montalenti December 23, 2014Jay Kreps created Apache Kafka to address his data integration needs at LinkedIn. He also wrote a widely-circulated essay about…
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Apache Storm: The Big Reference
by Andrew Montalenti July 9, 2014Apache Storm is a free and open source project that is heavily used here at Parse.ly, as well as at…
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streamparse: Python and Apache Storm made easy with a new open source project
by Andrew Montalenti May 4, 2014Our engineering team released streamparse today at PyData Silicon Valley 2014. It was demonstrated at our talk, “Real-time streams & logs with…
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Whatever It Takes
by Andrew Montalenti November 2, 2012How the Parse.ly team didn’t let implementation obstacles get in the way of delivering elegant, beautiful, and timely data digests…
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