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Bitly: Hilary Mason on Data tools and challenges

Jul 012013
 

This talk is by , Chief Scientist at Bitly.

In this talk Hillary covers  a number of topics, including the tools her team uses as well as the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead those in the data science field.

 

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Bitly – Realtime Distributed Message Processing at Scale with NSQ

Jun 202013
 

This talk is by , Lead Engineer at Bitly, and , a Software Engineer at Bitly, recorded at the eBay NYC offices.

Matt and Jehiah will be talking about NSQ, their open sourced project  that solves an issue of  realtime distributed message processing, designed to operate at bitly’s scale, handling billions of messages per day. It promotes distributed and decentralized topologies without single points of failure, enabling fault tolerance and high availability coupled with a reliable message delivery guarantee.

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NSQ: Realtime Distributed Message Processing at Scale

Apr 122013
 

(Contributor article by Bitly, originally appeared on the Bitly Engineering Blog)

NSQ is a realtime message processing system designed to operate at bitly’s scale, handling billions of messages per day.

It promotes distributed and decentralized topologies without single points of failure, enabling fault tolerance and high availability coupled with a reliable message delivery guarantee.

Operationally, NSQ is easy to configure and deploy (all parameters are specified on the command line and compiled binaries have no runtime dependencies). For maximum flexibility, it is agnostic to data format (messages can be JSON, MsgPack, , or anything else). Go and Python libraries are available out of the box.

This post aims to provide a detailed overview of NSQ, from the problems that inspired us to build a better solution to how it works inside and out. There’s a lot to cover so let’s start off with a little history…

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