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31st May 2008 - Link Blog

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.

Posted 31st May 2008 at 2:14 pm

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