This is pretty nice. Google released Zippy as Open Source: Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not aim for maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For instance, compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster [...]
Tagged: bigtable, compression, gfs, google, mapreduce, opensource, spinn3r
There’s a middle path here. You can go with someone like Softlayer or Rackspace and have your cake and eat it too. Softlayer is a bit closer to being the cloud. We love them. Great company. Major partner for us… we’re going to be doubling down on servers this year and they’re going to get [...]
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We’re hiring an API Software Engineer to join the team over at Spinn3r. We’re probably going to be hiring 2-3 engineers in the next month or so but don’t grow too fast. We want to focus on one position at a time so we can bring in the best potential hires. This is a fun [...]
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At Spinn3r we frequently deal with the chaos revolving around robots.txt so I thought I would throw few thoughts out there about the complexity of the issues involved here. REP is not a EULA This is part of the confusion around robots.txt. It’s not really clear that just because you can fetch a URL that [...]
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Tagged: facebook, rep, robots.txt, spinn3r
This really isn’t news but it’s nice to see more people talk about this problem: Cha called her paper, “The Million Follower Fallacy,” a term that comes from work by Adi Avnit. Avnit posited that the number of followers of a Tweeter is largely meaningless, and Cha, after looking at data from all 52 million [...]
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Spinn3r is growing fast. We’ve had an exceptional month (an exceptional year actually). Closing new deals. Releasing new features for our customers. Working on new backend architecture changes, and generally having a lot of fun in the process. We’ve been posting to Craigslist like mad in the last few weeks but I wanted to take [...]
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Matt just announced that WordPress will support the new RSS cloud protocol. This ping model has already existed with Ping-o-Matic of course (which Matt/Wordpress have been running for since the blog epoch) and Spinn3r customers already benefit from this. In fact, we’ve been realtime for a long time now. WordPress.com has always supported update pings [...]
Spinn3r is growing fast. Time to hire another engineer. Actually, we’re hiring for like four people right now so I’ll probably be blogging more on this topic. My older post on this subject still applies for requirements. If you’re a Linux or MySQL geek we’d love to have your help. Did I mention we just [...]
We’re hiring a Support Engineer at Spinn3r. This is a key hire (and will take a lot of work off my shoulders) so we plan on taking our time to find the right candidate. That said, this is an awesome opportunity to get in and work on a rapidly growing startup. About Spinn3r: Spinn3r is [...]
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I didn’t have time to blog about this when it was originally posted but the NYTimes has a great piece on the cool work done by Jure Leskovec and Jon Kleinberg with their work on Memetracker (which is powered by Spinn3r). For the most part, the traditional news outlets lead and the blogs follow, typically [...]
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