Last.fm – the Blog · Python + Hadoop = Flying Circus ElephantAs a research intern here at Last.fm, dealing with huge datasets has become my daily bread. Having a herd of yellow elephants at my disposal makes this a lot easier, but the conventional way of writing Hadoop programs can be rather cumbersome. It generally involves lots of typing, compiling, building, and moving files around, which is especially annoying for the “write once, run never again” progr
