Organized by , this is a talk from their recent Dynamic Scaling meetup at Yahoo! URL’s cafe. In this talk, , Head of Tech Ops at Pinterest, covers how they Dynamically Scale at Pinterest.
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Mar 062013
Let us preface this by apologizing for poor recording quality! We had a technical issue that caused clipping on the audio. 
We will get a transcript up soon to save your ears.
Despite that, we’ve got a recording from the Hadoop meetup last night in AppNexus. , Chief Application Architect at MapR Technologies, will talk about recent developments in Mahout and real-time learning.
In particular, Ted covers the results from quality and speed testing of Mahout’s new super-fast k-means clustering algorithms (hint, quality is very good and speed is phenomenal). He also dives deep into a design for a on-line clustering facility that can cluster the full content of the Twitter fire-hose into thousands of clusters in real-time.
Full transcript of this talk can be found here
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Today we have a talk from a recent SF MongoDB user group meetup by MongoDB expert Greg Brockman. Greg has been leading development at Stripe where they use MongoDB to power their event processing system.
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We attended a huge g33k gathering in San Jose not long ago – the TechXploration meetup where we were lucky enough to record an exciting talk by web performance guru . Steve was accompanied by (Javascript wizard) Douglas Crockford for a talk called “Your Script Just Killed My Site” about the prevalence of front-end SPOF (that’s “single point of failure”) along with key tips as to how to make your front-end code more resilient.
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