Simon Willison’s Weblog

Python + Hadoop = Flying Circus Elephant. Last.fm have released Dumbo, a Python module that lets you easily write Hadoop map/reduce tasks using Python and generators. 31st May 2008, 2:14 pm

LastGraph 3. Andrew Godwin’s last.fm profile visualisation tool, now in its third incarnation. 25th May 2008, 2:05 pm

LastGraph. Now Available. Andrew Godwin has relaunched his LastGraph Last.fm graphing application. The new version is built on Django and S3 and uses Andrew’s Graphication graphing library based on Cairo. 15th October 2007, 10:02 pm

Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata. Last.fm have started using audio fingerprints to help clean up misspelled artists and duplicate track information. 13th September 2007, 5:46 pm

SlideShare: Webapps scalability. Lots of great presentations on scaling, from Twitter, Digg, Vox, LiveJournal, Last.fm and more. 4th July 2007, 12:53 am

libketama (via) A consistent hashing algorithm for memcache clients, from the team at last.fm. 20th April 2007, 6:50 am