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Rails vs Django: A Developer’s Comparison
As you might know from reading some of my previous blog posts, I’ve been working with Python and Django pretty extensively over the last year, mainly for rapid prototyping and developing relatively...
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Applying Data Mining Techniques to MapReduce
Here at the Labs, we have been playing around with the MapReduce programming model (namely the open-source Hadoop implementation) for a while, but have been relatively conservative up till now. Most of...
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Concurrency Insights from Web Server Technologies
As we explore the scaling of Web applications in many dimensions (number of users, size of data, UI functionality, and more), there are various challenges, many subtle and surprising. Some of the...
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Client-side Image Composition with HTML5
As Constant Contact produces more and more video content, we’ve started to run into some unlikely bottlenecks in the video creation process. One of the big ones turns out to be the creation of preview...
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Using Windows 8 for Creating Apps
Deciding to give it a try, I downloaded Windows 8 to my personal laptop. I then ran the update that promised to keep all of my files and settings intact and held my breath. Thankfully, it turned out...
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