December 2011
1 post
Messenger WithYou →
June 2011
3 posts
Big Data, Micro Servers →
Hadoop, Hive and Redis for Foursquare Analytics →
nosql:
Foursquare’s move from querying the production databases to a data analytics system using Hadoop and Hive with Redis playing the role of a cache:
Provide an easy-to-use end-point to run data exploration queries (using SQL and simple web-forms).
Cache the results of queries (in a database) to power reports, so that the data is available to everyone, whenever it is needed.
Allow our...
To create THE product!
To sell WHY we do it, not WHAT we do.
WHAT we do, simply serves as proof of what we believe in!