Parse.ly tracks a number of directly-measured metrics from websites, such as views, visitors, time, and shares. In addition to this,…

If you’re a developer, analyst, or data scientist, you have probably been hearing a lot about “analytics” these days. Some…

On Thursday, June 9, 2016, Parse.ly experienced a real-time data outage that lasted approximately 3 hours. No customer data was…

Why Parse.ly uses Kafka For the last three years, Parse.ly has been one of the biggest production users of Apache…

Today, Parse.ly is happy to announce the 1.0 release of PyKafka, a new Python driver for Kafka. Kafka is “publish-subscribe messaging rethought…

You know that old saying, “If it seems too good to be true, it probably is?” We technologists should probably…

Python offers a number of different concurrency models, including multi-threading, process pools, and cooperative multitasking around an async event loop.…

On Thur, Mar 26 2015 and Fri, Mar 27 2015, Parse.ly experienced several outages of its data processing backend. The…

Before MongoDB, before Cassandra, before “NoSQL”, there was Lucene. Did you know that Doug Cutting wrote the first versions of…

Jay Kreps created Apache Kafka to address his data integration needs at LinkedIn. He also wrote a widely-circulated essay about…

Apache Storm is a free and open source project that is heavily used here at Parse.ly, as well as at…

A little over two years ago I decided my current career in digital / business analytics just wasn’t cutting it. I…