[Baypiggies] mrjob - distributed computing in Python made easy

[Tony Cappellini]

You're On Jimmy! +1


On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Jimmy Retzlaff <jimmy at retzlaff.com> wrote:
> Yelp has just open sourced mrjob. It's a package that makes doing
> MapReduce in Python almost trivial. In as little as 10 lines of code
> you can do MapReduce on your own computer. Add a handfull of lines of
> configuration and you can be running your code unchanged in parallel
> on dozens of machine on Amazon Elastic Map Reduce for a a few dollars
> (a dozen "small" machines for an hour would be about $1). Dave, the
> primary author just wrote up a post on our engineering blog:
>
> http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2010/10/mrjob-distributed-computing-for-everybody.html
>
> I'm putting in a proposal to give a talk on mrjob at PyCon 2011.
> Whether that's accepted or not, maybe I can give the same talk at
> BayPIGgies in January or February if there's interest...
>
> Jimmy
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