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Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster - Adam Drake

Link: Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster - Adam Drake: "Introduction As I was browsing the web and catching up on some sites I visit periodically, I found a cool article from Tom Hayden about using Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) and mrjob in order to compute some statistics on win/loss ratios for chess games he downloaded from the millionbase archive, and generally have fun with EMR. Since the data volume was only about 1.75GB containing around 2 million chess games, I was skeptical of using Hadoop for the task, but I can understand his goal of learning and having fun with mrjob and EMR."

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Company Logo API

Link: Company Logo API: "We're happy to announce Clearbit's free Logo API. While services like Gravatar make it straightforward to pull in a user's default avatar, we haven't found anything that caters well to company logos. And yet there's a lot of clear use-cases ranging from setting an organization's default image on signup to"