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Bulk Log Analytics With Hive

Leveraging the distributed powers of MapReduce to perform custom log analysis or some one-time queries on the raw data is fast and easy and you don’t even have to build a complicated ETL process to do it. The data engineering team at WordPress.com recently used this approch to query tens of billions of log lines…
Demet Dagdelen

Network Science at Automattic: Mapping the Communities of WP.com

WordPress.com is home to hundreds of millions of sites, a place to produce and discover content. Logging in, you’re automatically taken to the Reader, where you’ll find a stream of posts from sites you follow or that we’ve recommended for you. You can like, reblog, or comment on these posts. If you’re inspired, you can choose to publish a…
Boris Gorelik

Data for nothing and bytes for free

WordPress.com is a freemium service, meaning that our awesome blogging platform is provided for free to everyone, and we make money by selling upgrades. We process thousands of user purchases each week and you might expect that we know a lot about our customers. The truth is, we are still learning. In this post, we…

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