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Tuesday, 7th April 2009

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

Building sites around social objects. Jyri Engeström’s concept of “social objects” is a genuinely useful new way to talk about social web sites. # 9:16 am

Rabbits and warrens. Handy tutorial introduction to using RabbitMQ and AMQP with Python. # 9:13 am