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Twitter's programmers speed Hadoop development

Cascading simplifies Twitter's MapReduce operations in Scala, Clojure, and Jython

By Andrew Lampitt, InfoWorld, 01/31/13

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In all these cases, Cascading shields developers from the underlying complexity of writing, optimizing, and executing MapReduce jobs. It allows each team to deliver highly complex information and functionality needed by the business quickly and efficiently. The end result of all this amounts to important insights Twitter can use to continuously improve its wildly popular service.

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