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Re:Twitter buys Vine on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @01:27PM (#4637312)
Our product was ported and re-skinned inside Twitter's analytics offerings.

On the technology side a lot of our core tech is being used across different teams here. Storm is being used to help power applications for analytics, revenue, content discovery, anti-spam, search and more.

Also we're currently hiring engineers to work specifically on that technology so feel free to reach out to any of us from the BackType crew to get involved.

Re:Storm - the Hadoop of realtime processing on Thursday May 26, 2011 @10:34PM (#2590248)
Cool, great to see you're making use of EDB. Would love to hear more about how you're using, how the transition was, etc. [email protected].
Re:Calculate your GitHub hacker score on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @10:18PM (#2469206)
Fixed.
Re:Calculate your GitHub hacker score on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @09:25PM (#2469102)
It's there now. Had to make some changes to distribute some of the work.
Re:Calculate your GitHub hacker score on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @07:45PM (#2468866)
Getting throttled a bit right now by the github API — should be better soon.
Re:The Secrets of Building Realtime Big Data Systems on Saturday March 26, 2011 @01:30AM (#2371436)
We use Python for all our data collecting, general scripting, and some of our stream processing (though stream processing is moving to a more generalized framework that is Java/Clojure based).

Also, our underlying API (that serves results to all our products/API/etc) is a collection of Python servers written with Twisted and Thrift.

Re:BackType (YC S08) Raises a Million in Funding on Thursday March 10, 2011 @08:37PM (#2311728)
Thanks! If you're in the city come by the Lisp/Clojure meetup tonight — we're talking about Clojure at BackType, the tools we've open sourced and demoing our new stream processing framework.
Re:ElephantDB: A database specialized in exporting KV data from Hadoop on Friday February 18, 2011 @05:11PM (#2237505)
Here's a really short slide deck with some details on how it fits into our workflow at BackType: http://www.slideshare.net/michaelmontano/designing-for-massi...

Will have lots more on our tech blog next week.

BackType is hiring hackers!

Posted by omakase on Friday February 18, 2011 @04:34PM
from the now-hiring dept.

We're growing!We live and breathe product and ship to production every day. We're obsessed with measurement and data to inform decisions, learning about our customers and their problems, and doing whatever it takes to minimize waste.We hack with a wide range of technologies: from Python and Clojure, to Cassandra, Hadoop and Thrift. We open sourced Cascalog, a query for Hadoop, ElephantDB, a...

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BackType is hiring hackers [SF]

Posted by omakase on Friday February 04, 2011 @03:57PM
from the now-hiring dept.

We're growing!We live and breathe product and ship to production every day. We're obsessed with measurement and data to inform decisions, learning about our customers and their problems, and doing whatever it takes to minimize waste.We hack with a wide range of technologies: from Python and Clojure, to Cassandra, Hadoop and Thrift. We open sourced Cascalog, a query for Hadoop, created a...

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BackType is hiring product and backend hackers

Posted by omakase on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @05:36PM
from the now-hiring dept.

We're growing!We live and breathe product and ship to production every day. We're obsessed with measurement and data to inform decisions, learning about our customers and their problems, and doing whatever it takes to minimize waste.We hack with a wide range of technologies: from Python and Clojure, to Cassandra, Hadoop and Thrift. We open sourced Cascalog, a query for Hadoop, created a...

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BackType is hiring hackers

Posted by omakase on Saturday January 15, 2011 @11:41PM
from the now-hiring dept.

We're growing!We live and breathe product and ship to production every day. We're obsessed with measurement and data to inform decisions, learning about our customers and their problems, and doing whatever it takes to minimize waste.We hack with a wide range of technologies: from Python and Clojure, to Cassandra, Hadoop and Thrift. We open sourced Cascalog, a query for Hadoop, created a...

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BackType is hiring hackers!

Posted by omakase on Thursday January 06, 2011 @04:32PM
from the now-hiring dept.

We're growing!We live and breathe product and ship to production every day. We're obsessed with measurement and data to inform decisions, learning about our customers and their problems, and doing whatever it takes to minimize waste.We hack with a wide range of technologies: from Python and Clojure, to Cassandra, Hadoop and Thrift. We open sourced Cascalog, a query for Hadoop, created a...

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