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Machine learning for news: the NLP engine behind Parse.ly Currents
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Does Facebook control the news? Has Donald Trump hacked the media cycle? Are search algorithms creating filter bubbles? Is outrage…
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Language Models are Changing Everything
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This is a blog post about how the predictive text function on your phone will destroy the world. Or maybe…
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Among AT&T’s entertainment assets, Game of Thrones gets the most attention. Here’s how we used Wikidata’s entities and ontology to find that out.
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At Parse.ly, we measure how much attention content receives, and broadly speaking – it’s a lot. We directly track how…
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Parse.ly Onboarding HOWTO
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What’s day one at Parse.ly like? The ultimate goal for new hires is to achieve “reliable independence.” Not only do…
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How metadata supercharges analytics in Parse.ly
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Parse.ly tracks a number of directly-measured metrics from websites, such as views, visitors, time, and shares. In addition to this,…
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Picking a cloud database for analytics: the SQL options
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If you’re a developer, analyst, or data scientist, you have probably been hearing a lot about “analytics” these days. Some…
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Postmortem of Parse.ly’s Real-Time Outage (2016-06-09)
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On Thursday, June 9, 2016, Parse.ly experienced a real-time data outage that lasted approximately 3 hours. No customer data was…
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PyKafka: Fast, Pythonic Kafka, at Last!
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Why Parse.ly uses Kafka For the last three years, Parse.ly has been one of the biggest production users of Apache…
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Announcing PyKafka: Python Support for Kafka 0.8.x
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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…
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This Team Used Apache Cassandra… You Won’t Believe What Happened Next
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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
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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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Kafkapocalypse: a postmortem on our service outage
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On Thur, Mar 26 2015 and Fri, Mar 27 2015, Parse.ly experienced several outages of its data processing backend. The…