April 2012
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Blake Matheny: Tumblr Firehose - The Gory Details →
mobocracy:
Back in December I started putting some thought into the tumblr firehose. While the initial launch was covered here, and the business stuff surrounding it was covered by places like techcrunch and AllThingsD, not much has been said about the technical details.
First, some back story. I knew in December that a product need for the firehose was upcoming and had simultaneously been...
Puppet Camp 2012
Tumblr is proud to be a sponsor of Puppet Camp, a gathering of Puppet users and developers taking place next week in NYC on April 27.
We’ve been using Puppet to automate large portions of our infrastructure since version 2.6. Our most recent Puppet setup uses extensive parameterized classes, an in-house external node classifier, and even generates firewall rules (based on defined...
Tumblr Firehose
We hear quite a bit about BIG DATA and REAL-TIME stuff. But I’m never sure exactly how BIG the data is or how REAL the time is. Seems like these are often just cool words that the cool kids like to throw around. The Tumblr engineering staff is too busy to worry about being cool, but we do have BIG data and we are making it available in REAL time — starting today. We’re happy to...
