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HN mostly links it for Drake, a 'make for data' tool, which commenters bring up as an alternative whenever data workflow tools come up.
Last month, the similar 'memoize' came up:
https://github.com/kgaughan/memoize.py
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9356433)
Also another entrant in the genre is 'Drake':
http://blog.factual.com/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for-data
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5110921)
Drake was just released, it's a make replacement specifically for data processing and seems to have some nice features.
http://blog.factual.com/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for-data
Interesting... here is a tool, which is also going twoards data oriented approach.
"Drake - a kind of make for data"
http://blog.factual.com/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for-data
You might be interested in Drake, a kind of ‘make for data’.
http://blog.factual.com/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for-data
'Drake' for that use was on here too, not too long ago. http://blog.factual.com/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for-data
Right on the same HN homepage:
http://blog.factual.com/docker-mesos-marathon-and-the-end-of-pets