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Machine learning for news: the NLP engine behind Parse.ly Currents

Does Facebook control the news? Has Donald Trump hacked the media cycle? Are search algorithms creating filter bubbles? Is outrage the only currency on social networks? These questions, and many more, are top-of-mind for the…

Andrew MontalentiSeptember 24, 2019

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Language Models are Changing Everything

This is a blog post about how the predictive text function on your phone will destroy the world. Or maybe not, but at the very least, it'll revolutionize the ability of computers to understand and…

Matt CarriganJuly 18, 2019

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Among AT&T’s entertainment assets, Game of Thrones gets the most attention. Here’s how we used Wikidata’s entities and ontology to find that out.

At Parse.ly, we measure how much attention content receives, and broadly speaking - it's a lot. We directly track how many page views individual URLs receive from visitors. In the last three years we've tracked…

Conrad LeeMarch 26, 2019

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Parse.ly Onboarding HOWTO

What's day one at Parse.ly like? The ultimate goal for new hires is to achieve "reliable independence." Not only do you have your colleagues to support you along the way, but you have access to…

Andrew MontalentiSeptember 25, 2017

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How metadata supercharges analytics in Parse.ly

Parse.ly tracks a number of directly-measured metrics from websites, such as views, visitors, time, and shares. In addition to this, Parse.ly tracks "page metadata" using one of several content management system (CMS) integrations. In fact,…

Andrew MontalentiDecember 12, 2016

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Picking a cloud database for analytics: the SQL options

If you're a developer, analyst, or data scientist, you have probably been hearing a lot about "analytics" these days. Some the most popular open source big data projects, like -- Spark, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch --…

Andrew MontalentiOctober 14, 2016

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Postmortem of Parse.ly’s Real-Time Outage (2016-06-09)

On Thursday, June 9, 2016, Parse.ly experienced a real-time data outage that lasted approximately 3 hours. No customer data was lost, but this did result in a delayed delivery of data from that 3-hour window.…

Andrew MontalentiJune 13, 2016

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PyKafka: Fast, Pythonic Kafka, at Last!

Why Parse.ly uses Kafka For the last three years, Parse.ly has been one of the biggest production users of Apache Kafka as a core piece of infrastructure in our log-oriented architecture. We currently process over…

Andrew MontalentiJune 9, 2016

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Announcing PyKafka: Python Support for Kafka 0.8.x

Today, Parse.ly is happy to announce the 1.0 release of PyKafka, a new Python driver for Kafka. Kafka is "publish-subscribe messaging rethought as a distributed commit log", and Parse.ly makes heavy use of it. PyKafka…

Emmett ButlerJune 8, 2015

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This Team Used Apache Cassandra… You Won’t Believe What Happened Next

You know that old saying, "If it seems too good to be true, it probably is?" We technologists should probably apply that saying to database vendor claims pretty regularly. In the summer of 2014, the…

Andrew MontalentiMay 6, 2015

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Grokking Python Event Loops and Concurrency with Apache Cassandra

Python offers a number of different concurrency models, including multi-threading, process pools, and cooperative multitasking around an async event loop. These various concurrency models were demonstrated in a fun live coding session by David Beazley…

Andrew MontalentiApril 22, 2015

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Kafkapocalypse: a postmortem on our service outage

On Thur, Mar 26 2015 and Fri, Mar 27 2015, Parse.ly experienced several outages of its data processing backend. The result was several hours of no new data appearing in our analytics dashboards, both for…

Andrew MontalentiMarch 31, 2015

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Parse.ly Tech

Machine learning for news: the NLP engine behind Parse.ly Currents

Language Models are Changing Everything

Among AT&T’s entertainment assets, Game of Thrones gets the most attention. Here’s how we used Wikidata’s entities and ontology to find that out.

Parse.ly Onboarding HOWTO

How metadata supercharges analytics in Parse.ly

Picking a cloud database for analytics: the SQL options

Postmortem of Parse.ly’s Real-Time Outage (2016-06-09)

PyKafka: Fast, Pythonic Kafka, at Last!

Announcing PyKafka: Python Support for Kafka 0.8.x

This Team Used Apache Cassandra… You Won’t Believe What Happened Next

Grokking Python Event Loops and Concurrency with Apache Cassandra

Kafkapocalypse: a postmortem on our service outage

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