Monthly Archives: January 2010

Keeping It Clean

By | Published: January 19, 2010

Like most engineering teams, we at Rapleaf do not write perfect code. Whether because of design shortsightedness, changing requirements, poor style, obsoleted functionality or a host of other factors, we often find ourselves wanting to clean up parts of our system. The need to clean up code is common to every individual and development organization, [...]

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The Wrath of DrWho, or Unpredictable Hadoop Memory Usage

By Bryan Duxbury | Published: January 5, 2010

A while back we encountered a really peculiar problem with one of our Hadoop apps. The app did a bunch of HDFS operations before launching a small Map/Reduce job and going on to do a bunch of memory intensive operations. It would run very happily for a few days to a week at a time, [...]

Posted in Hadoop, HDFS | 7 Comments

Person API v3

By ckline | Published: January 4, 2010

Update: We have deprecated our v3 API in favor of our new Personalization API Please refer to the documents found there for more information on accessing our API. We just updated our person API to allow queries by social network profile ID. The new style URLs are also more natural to write. If you want [...]

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