What IRC channel we should join? On Tue, 19 Feb 2019, 17:56 Robert Kaye, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello! > > I’m Robert Kaye from the MetaBrainz Foundation — we’re the people behind > MusicBrainz ( https://musicbrainz.org ) and more recently ListenBrainz ( > https://listenbrainz.org ). ListenBrainz is aiming to re-create what > last.fm used to be — we’ve already got 200M listens (AKA scrabbles) from > our users (which is not a lot, really). We’ve setup an Apache Spark cluster > and are starting to build user listening statistics using this setup. > > While our setup is working, we can see that we’re not going to scale up > well given our current approach. We’ve been trying to read the docs, ask > for help on the IRC channel, but we continue to miss import bits about how > we should be doing things. Best practices around Spark seem to be hard to > come by. :( > > MetaBrainz is all open source and open data — any of the data we use is > available for anyone to download — we’re a non-profit working hard towards > creating open source music recommendation engines. We’re hoping that > someone could take us under their wing, turn up in our IRC channel and help > us find the right path towards using Spark much more effectively than we’ve > been so far. > > Is anyone on this list interested in helping out? Perhaps you know someone > who might? > > Thanks! > > -- > > --ruaok > > Robert Kaye -- [email protected] -- http://metabrainz.org > >
