Architecture of news.local.ch

Intro Probably my favourite project at local.ch was news.local.ch. That’s a site which crawls Swiss newspapers for news and classifies them by town. It only shows news which can be associated with any Swiss town. This leads to a good news collection even for very small villages. In this post I’m going to outline the architecture and how we used Amazon’s web services to make building this a lot easier than it could have been. There will be a follow-up detailing how we used Python in this project. ...

February 20, 2009 · Patrice Neff