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Foursquare Native Auth on iOS and Android: Developers, connect your users more quickly than ever 19 Aug 2013 | 07:34 pm
A few weeks ago we were excited to announce one of our most-wished-for features from our developer community, native authentication for iOS, and today we’re happy to announce we’ve also shipped suppor...
Machine learning at Foursquare 25 Jul 2013 | 09:06 pm
In March, I spoke at Queens Open Tech about machine learning at Foursquare. The talk gives a nice overview of the kinds of insights we have about human behavior from check-in data and our machine-lear...
Quattroshapes: A Global Polygon Gazetteer from Foursquare 11 Jun 2013 | 10:31 pm
Foursquare geographic infrastructure relies on numerous pieces of open geo software: PostGIS, GDAL, Shapely, Fiona, QGIS, S2, and JTS as well as open geographic data: OSM, geonames.org, US Census’ TIG...
Load tests for the real world 30 May 2013 | 10:28 pm
The gold standard for systems performance measurement is a load test, which is a deterministic process of putting a demand on a system to establish its capacity. For example, you might load test a web...
Native app integration like never before: The Foursquare for BlackBerry 10 SDK 31 Jan 2013 | 10:11 pm
Yesterday, BlackBerry announced their first BB10 devices. We here on the BlackBerry team at Foursquare are really excited about the launch and wanted to give our awesome third party developers somethi...
The Opportunity Gap: learn about the public schools in your neighborhood with @ProPublica and Foursquare 25 Jan 2013 | 12:43 am
As our recent hackathon showed, there are tons of ways that developers can use Foursquare to power amazing apps – from ones that shame you into going to the gym, to others that alert you to restaurant...
A Foursquare Hackathon for the new year – sign up and build the next amazing hack! 10 Dec 2012 | 10:01 pm
And take two! Although Sandy foiled our hackathon plans in November, we’re back and ready to hack it up with the best and brightest. On January 5, we’re inviting developers and designers in NYC, SF, a...
MongoDB at Foursquare: From the the cloud to bare metal 28 Nov 2012 | 02:38 am
We’ve been running Mongo as our main storage engine for almost 3 years. For most of that time the Mongo servers and all the rest of our infrstracture were hosted on Amazon’s EC2. We recently migrated ...
Even more ways to personalize Foursquare – check out the latest additions to our app gallery 29 Oct 2012 | 07:59 pm
Want to know if there’s a teaser after the movie credits, or the healthiest dish to order at a restaurant? There are a bunch of apps you can connect to your Foursquare account to help you make the mos...
Open-sourcing our dashboard for Apache Oozie 17 Oct 2012 | 01:11 am
At Foursquare, we use Apache Oozie to manage the scheduling and control of our offline data processing workflows. We’ve had great success with the project, and we run upwards of 1000 Oozie workflows p...
