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An example of using F# and C# (.net/mono) with Amazon’s Elastic Mapreduce (Hadoop)

This posting gives an an example how F# and C# can scale potentially to up to thousands of machines with Mapreduce in order to efficiently process TeraByte (TB) and PetaByte (PB) data amounts. It shows a C# (c sharp) mapper … Continue reading

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Programmatic Deployment to Elastic Mapreduce with Boto and Bootstrap Action

A while back I wrote about How to combine Elastic Mapreduce/Hadoop with other Amazon Web Services. This posting is a small update to that, showing how to deploy extra packages with Boto for Python. Note that Boto can deploy mappers … Continue reading

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Atbrox Customer Case Study – Scalable Language Processing with Elastic Mapreduce (Hadoop)

We developed a tool for scalable language processing for our customer Lingit using Amazon’s Elastic Mapreduce. More details: http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/atbrox/ Contact us if you need help with Hadoop/Elastic Mapreduce.

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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

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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

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