Simon Willison’s Weblog

Rabbits and warrens. Handy tutorial introduction to using RabbitMQ and AMQP with Python.

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Building sites around social objects. Jyri Engeström’s concept of “social objects” is a genuinely useful new way to talk about social web sites.

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Finding similar items with Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Python, and Hadoop streaming. Tutorial for running Hadoop jobs on Elastic MapReduce using Python and the 2005 Audioscrobbler dataset.

# 9:19 am / audioscrobbler, amazon, amazon-web-services, hadoop, mapreduce, elasticmapreduce, python