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            <title><![CDATA[Today, Vimeo goes public]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Vimeo spins out from IAC and begins trading on Nasdaq under the ticker VMEO.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Another year at FOSDEM — Vimeo's open source talk, the dedicated Open Source Search track, and a closing keynote from a Mars One astronaut candidate.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[I've Joined Vimeo]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Joining the Vimeo team to work on the search platform after an amazing run at DueDil.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[DueDil raises further $17 million of funding to fuel growth and expansion]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[DueDil's Series B: a $17m round led by Oak Investment Partners, bringing total funding to $22m and accelerating expansion to new geographies.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Elasticsearch 1.0 launched: An overview]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A run-down of the headline features in Elasticsearch 1.0 — Snapshot/Restore, the cat API, the redesigned percolator, and the new Aggregations framework.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[FOSDEM 2014: a retrospective]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A weekend in Brussels at FOSDEM — Elasticsearch 1.0 ahead of launch, plus PostgreSQL JSON, Redis, MongoDB, and YARN talks.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Elasticsearch Marvel: Monitor and Manage your Elasticsearch cluster]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Elasticsearch's new Marvel monitoring dashboard — built on Kibana and Sense — surfaces cluster health and lets you query the REST API live.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Elasticsearch Snapshot Restore Overview]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A walkthrough of the new Snapshot/Restore API arriving in Elasticsearch 1.0 — incremental backups for your cluster via a simple REST endpoint.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Elasticsearch Aggregations Overview]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A look at the new Aggregations framework arriving in Elasticsearch 1.0 — multi-level, nested calculations that go far beyond what Facets could do.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[London Elasticsearch User Group Presentation]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A talk at the London Elasticsearch meetup on how DueDil uses Elasticsearch — bulk indexing, and using Facets to add depth to search.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Elasticsearch "Yellow" cluster status explained]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[What yellow status actually means, and how the Cluster Health API reports primary vs replica shard allocation.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[DueDil completes Series A funding and announces $5m in new investment]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[DueDil's $5m Series A round, led by Notion Capital and Oak Investment Partners — funding new territories and additional data sets.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Using Elasticsearch on Amazon EC2]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Setting up an Elasticsearch cluster on EC2: installing the AWS cloud plugin, configuring discovery, and watching nodes find each other.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[DueDil: Trust the data]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[DueDil's intro video — a quick look at what we're building.]]></description>
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