interview: Tom Conrad (Pandora)
O’Reilly Digital Media published an elaborate feature on music recommendation service Pandora, including an interview with chief technical officer Tom Conrad. the article explains how the Music Genome Project - Pandora’s underlying recommendation engine - works and how new incoming music is analysed and categorized by 40 professional musicians. on the technical side, Conrad gives insight on Pandora’s software-architecture (J2EE, OpenLaszlo, PostgreSQL) and how it scales up to 2.5mio registered listeners.
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