CDN Evaluation Criteria
A friend asked me about StyleFeeder‘s experience using CDNs, so I sent him the list of criteria that we use to evaluate the various content delivery networks that we have tried. We’re currently using...
View ArticleWe’re a finalist for the MITX Awards, 2009
I just got an email that informed me we’re a finalist for the MITX Awards this year in the “applied technology” category, which is great news. You may recall that we won at last year’s award ceremony....
View ArticleHow not to name your brand
In honor of 80%20 Shoes, signs you’ve chosen a bad brand name for your shoes, in the age of Google: Your name contains a URL entity. When you put %20 in the URL it represents a space character. Oops....
View ArticleOverheard at StyleFeeder: Hadoopable
Hadoopable (adj.): whether a job can be run on Hadoop or not; can be broken into map and reduce stages
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Google analyzes itself
I was looking at our Google Webmaster Tools (aka GWT) account yesterday and noticed that one of the new “Labs” features is “Site performance.” Well, that’s the kind of thing that gets my attention. I...
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StyleFeeder @ Sunrise
Sunrise over Central Square 12/21/2009 Sometimes an early morning is called for, and sometimes it pays off. The remnants of the storm on 12/20 left a painted sky, and it made the early work that much...
View ArticleHADOOP FOR THE LONE ANALYST, WHY AND HOW
INTRO Here at StyleFeeder, we spend a lot of time figuring out what our users are doing, and trying to figure out what they want. One of the tools we have brought to bear on these questions is Hadoop....
View ArticleBetter Categories in Data Feeds
Category data is useful in creating navigation structures for affiliate sites that consume data feeds. Sadly, there is a major lack of standards and practices in the filling in of category fields....
View ArticleHadoop for the lone analyst, part 2: patching and releasing to yourself
We left off, in part one of this series, at the point where we had Hadoop running with the Cloudera distribution, version 0.20.1+152. That’s Apache Hadoop release 0.20.1, plus 152 patches that...
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Happy 4th From StyleFeeder
Happy 4th of July again from StyleFeeder. Once again we were able to use our great view to observe the Boston 4th of July fireworks display. Hope your 4th was as good as ours.
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