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Category Archives: cloud computing
How to combine Elastic Mapreduce/Hadoop with other Amazon Web Services
Elastic Mapreduce default behavior is to read from and store to S3. When you need to access other AWS services, e.g. SQS queues or database services SimpleDB and RDS (MySQL) the best approach from Python is to use Boto. To … Continue reading
Posted in cloud computing, Hadoop and Mapreduce, infrastructure
Tagged amazon, aws, hadoop, mapreduce, python, simpledb, sqs
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Preliminary Experiences Crawling with 80legs
80legs is a company specializing in the crawling and preprocessing part of search, where you can upload your seed urls (where to start crawling), configure your crawl job (depth, domain restrictions etc.) and also run existing or custom analysis code … Continue reading
Posted in cloud computing
Tagged cloud computing, crawling, hadoop, mapreduce, search, web services
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Unstructured Search for Amazon’s SimpleDB
SimpleDB is a service primarily for storing and querying structured data (can e.g. be used for a product catalog with descriptive features per products, or an academic event service with extracted features such as event dates, locations, organizers and topics). … Continue reading
Posted in cloud computing
Tagged amazon, aws, hadoop, latency, python, s3, search, simpledb, storage, structured search, unstructured search
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How to use C++ Compiled Python for Amazon’s Elastic Mapreduce (Hadoop)
Sometimes it can be useful to compile Python code for Amazon’s Elastic Mapreduce into C++ and then into a binary. The motivation for that could be to integrate with (existing) C or C++ code, or increase performance for CPU-intensive mapper or … Continue reading
Posted in cloud computing
Tagged amazon, aws, c++, elastic mapreduce, hadoop, mapreduce, python, shedskin
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Hadoop World 2009 – some notes from application session
Other recommended writeups : Hadoop World NYC (Hilary Mason) The View from HadoopWorld (Stephen O’Grady) Post Hadoop World Thoughts (Deepak Singh) Hadoop World, NYC 2009 (Dan Milstein) Hadoop World Impressions (Steve Laniel) — Location: Roosevelt Hotel, NYC 1235 Joe Cunningham … Continue reading