Tag: Big Data

Cassandra and Sharded MySQL

Stefan Piesche, Constant Contact CTO, spoke at the Data @Scale conference in Boston, hosted by Facebook. He discussed how Constant Contact moved from scaling data vertically in large DB2 databases attached to even larger SANs, to using Cassandra as a horizontally scalable data tier for key/value type data. CTCT used to scale data vertically in large DB2 […]

Constant Contact Event Roundup | December 2013

Here’s a roundup of marketing-related technology events that the Constant Contact  team will be at in December 2013. BIA/Kelsey’s ILM West The Constant Contact AppConnect team is the Premiere Sponsor at BIA/Kelsey’s ILM West event at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco on December 10-12. Come see the AppConnect team at booth #101-102 to learn about our […]

Using the Constant Contact V2 APIs with R

Big Data is moving quickly from buzzword to required discipline for software companies. I recently worked on a project that merged two of my interests, APIs and analytics. This little side project retrieved campaign statistics from the Constant Contact v2 APIs and brought them into the R programming language for analysis. If you’re not familiar with R, […]