Historically venue search used to be done in Mongo at foursquare; we later migrated it to Solr and now we are using Elastic Search. While Solr has been great…

At Foursquare, we use Apache Oozie to manage the scheduling and control of our offline data processing workflows. We’ve had great success with the project, and we run upwards of 1000 Oozie workflows per day.

The iOS team here at foursquare is pleased to announce a new open source networking library, FSNetworking. The code is released under the Apache License, version 2.

I recently gave a talk at foursquare HQ for the New York Machine Learning Meetup. Here’s the abstract, with the slides below. Hope you enjoy!

I gave a talk at MongoNYC (video here!) about how we’ve built resiliency into our Mongo clusters on top of a volatile hardware environment.

We currently run all of our hardware infrastructure on top of Amazon’s EC2 platform. EC2 has allowed us to…

The latest addition to the connected apps gallery is a perfect example of how a little bit of information at the right time can make all the difference. Now when you check in to a…