Top Stories published by Foursquare in June of 2012

Stability in the midst of chaos

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…


Our Hadoop stack at foursquare

Recently, we hosted the NYC Hadoop Meetup at foursquare HQ. To the over 100 in attendance, we gave an overview of our Hadoop stack. In case you couldn’t make it (or want to take a second look at the slides), here they are:

At foursquare, we’re…