Pinterest shed more light on how the social scrapbook and visual discovery service analyzes data in real time, it said in a blog post on Wednesday, also revealing details about how… Read more »
Storage vendor Hitachi Data Systems is set to buy analytics company Pentaho at a price rumored to be between $500 million and $600 million (closer to $500 million, from what I’ve heard). It’s… Read more »
All eyes are on New York, where along with a massive incoming storm, Uber is rolling out its emergency surge pricing cap. On Monday, there was a flurry of coverage by media outlets from Bloomberg… Read more »
The new system, called TSAR, acts as a real-time data orchestrator and makes it easier for product teams to receive insights into Twitter’s data much faster than before. Read more »
The service, announced in November as a tool for customers who want to process data in a timely fashion, gives Amazon a rival to Apache Storm. Read more »
Hortonworks is working to integrate the Storm stream-processing engine with its Hadoop distro, and hopes to have it ready for enterprise apps within a year’s time. It’s the latest non-batch functionality… Read more »
Samza is LinkedIn’s take on Twitter’s Storm engine for stream processing, only built on top of LinkedIn’s own Kafka messaging system. It’s the latest in a growing line of open source… Read more »
Twitter has open sourced a “streaming MapReduce” system called Summingbird that makes Hadoop and Storm play nicer together so applications that require both batch and stream processing can do their jobs… Read more »