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blog.factual.com · Company blog · on HN since 2010
Factual's engineering team writes about open-source tools, Clojure, Docker and Mesos, and machine learning techniques.
What HN saysHN mostly links it for Drake, a 'make for data' tool, which commenters bring up as an alternative whenever data workflow tools come up.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Introducing Drake, a kind of ‘make for data’6 people · 197 points · first shared 2013 · 108 comments on HN
- 2Docker, Mesos, Marathon, and the End of Pets3 people · 71 points · first shared 2015 · 35 comments on HN
- 3Clojure on Hadoop: A New Hope1 people · 128 points · first shared 2011 · 27 comments on HN
- 4Thinking in Clojure for Java Programmers1 people · 105 points · first shared 2010 · 50 comments on HN
- 5Open-Source Clojure Library for Geospatial Information1 people · 82 points · first shared 2014 · 7 comments on HN
- 6Principles for Applying Machine Learning Techniques1 people · 57 points · first shared 2012 · 12 comments on HN
- 7The Wisdom of Crowds: Using Ensembles for Machine Learning1 people · 56 points · first shared 2012 · 5 comments on HN
- 8Nfu: Command-line Numeric Fu1 people · 53 points · first shared 2013 · 6 comments on HN
- 9Python, Clojure, Haskell: Factual Releases Drivers That Matter1 people · 53 points · first shared 2012 · 10 comments on HN
- 10Riffle: a high-performance write-once key/value storage engine for Clojure1 people · 36 points · first shared 2014 · 7 comments on HN
- 11Flotsam: Insanely Fast Floating-Point Number Serialization for Java, Javascript1 people · 31 points · first shared 2013 · 10 comments on HN
- 12Responsible Vacation Policy1 people · 31 points · first shared 2015 · 8 comments on HN
- 13A Brief Tour of Factual’s Machine Learning Pipeline1 people · 17 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
- 14Building a Faster API Stack Using Node.js1 people · 14 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 15Extend Drake (“Make for data”) with a Simple Clojure Project1 people · 14 points · first shared 2013 · 1 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
alexro · 2015-06-12
Right on the same HN homepage:
http://blog.factual.com/docker-mesos-marathon-and-the-end-of-pets
gojomo · 2015-05-26
Last month, the similar 'memoize' came up:
https://github.com/kgaughan/memoize.py
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9356433)
Also another entrant in the genre is 'Drake':
http://blog.factual.com/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for-data
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5110921)
fla · 2014-03-29
You might be interested in Drake, a kind of ‘make for data’.
http://blog.factual.com/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for-data
Bjoern · 2014-03-03
Interesting... here is a tool, which is also going twoards data oriented approach.
"Drake - a kind of make for data"
http://blog.factual.com/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for-data
queensnake · 2013-02-25
'Drake' for that use was on here too, not too long ago. http://blog.factual.com/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for-data
mprovost · 2013-02-24
Drake was just released, it's a make replacement specifically for data processing and seems to have some nice features.
http://blog.factual.com/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for-data