Author Archives: Bruno Pedro
MapReduce related patterns
Here’s a list of possible MapReduce related patterns I’ve been thinking about: map-update: update each mapped document and emit its updated or original version; map-delete: delete each mapped document; map-reduce-map: map results of a map-reduce; map-map: map results of a … Continue reading
node-fs npm package
node-fs is now available as an npm package. Just run npm install node-fs, require(‘node-fs’) and have fun.
Blog posts firehoses
Three more firehoses to get all blog posts from the following platforms: blogger posts, through their changes.xml; tumblr posts, through superfeedr‘s track feature; WordPress.com posts, through their firehose feature. While the first feed is free of charge, the other two … Continue reading
Drinking from the firehose
Some firehoses to drink read from, other than twitter’s: Google Buzz, through their activity firehose API methods; FriendFeed, using their real-time updates methods. While the first works via pubsubhubhub, the second uses a combination of long polling and a cursor … Continue reading
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Are we inside a bubble?
Very interesting post by Brad Feld about technology cycles. If you recognize that we are in a strong, positive, upward segment of the current “tech company creation cycle”, that’s more than enough. You should accept that we’ll be back in … Continue reading
