This is a blog post about how the predictive text function on your phone will destroy the world. Or maybe…

At Parse.ly, we measure how much attention content receives, and broadly speaking – it’s a lot. We directly track how…

Does Facebook control the news? Has Donald Trump hacked the media cycle? Are search algorithms creating filter bubbles? Is outrage…

What’s day one at Parse.ly like? The ultimate goal for new hires is to achieve “reliable independence.” Not only do…

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…