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Landing page that points [to a PDF](http://sqig.math.ist.utl.pt/pub/GracaDS/12-G-Finance.pdf).
Streaming Similarity Search over one Billion Tweets using Parallel Locality-Sensitive Hashing
(istc-bigdata.org)
A [good overview of their work](http://istc-bigdata.org/index.php/approximate-analytics-keeping-pace-with-big-data-using-parallel-locality-sensitive-hashing/) in "layman english" is here.
The OpenRoss image proxy service provides a way of serving dynamically resized images from Amazon S3 in a way that is fast, efficient, and auto-scales with traffic.
We have hosted the source for this service at Github.
This project isn't brand new, but I recently discovered it and even deployed it in production for a difficult-to-satisfy use case.
Bloom filters are a handy data structure, and implementations tend to exist for every language. But many use cases require scalable (resizable) bloom filters, persist...
Join-Idle-Queue: A Novel Load Balancing Algorithm for Dynamically Scalable Web Services
(research.microsoft.com)