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Making Open Data Tables even easier: YQL Storage Editor

One of the big benefits of YQL is that you can make your own Open Data Tables and use them. However, one of the disadvantages is that you either have to host your tables on a publicly available URL or … Continue reading

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Drastically reducing GC pause times for YQL

Update 2: JRockit Real Time 3.1.2 using -XgcPrio:deterministic performed even better than this configuration in testing though it is not yet an approved VM at Yahoo! we will continue to test with it. Update: One issue we still have is … Continue reading

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YQL opens up 3rd-party web service table definitions to developers

The Yahoo! Query Language aspires to be the last web service API that the normal developer will ever have to learn. By default we implement 50+ tables that grab data both from Yahoo! web services, some 3rd party web services … Continue reading

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Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP) and Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) launch today

Since I moved into the platform group at the beginning of the year I had worked with the YAP and YQL teams to help them define their strategy and direction but without being part of the day-to-day operations. In August, … Continue reading

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