Technology - Muserk

Cattle Not Pets

Wes Jones — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 16:16:20 +0000

When I first heard the term “cattle not pets” it was the perfect metaphor to describe a concept I had always been aware of when developing for the cloud, but never had the words to describe. The idea that you should remove individuality from your cloud infrastructure and treat your resources as nameless and dynamic […]

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Product Innovation In Music

Quentin Bradley — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 21:21:01 +0000

When we think of product innovation in the music industry, much of the focus centers on new ways to create music and new ways for fans to consume it. As far back as piano rolls, the idea of having a machine play your favorite music in your own home was amazing, this iterated into piano […]

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Cattle Not Pets – Configuring Scalable Resources

Wes Jones — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 23:05:11 +0000

When I first heard the term "cattle not pets" it was the perfect metaphor to describe a concept I had always been aware of when developing for the cloud. The same idea that we had been pushing for our own infrastructure at Muserk from the beginning. Pets being something that you name, feed, and care for whereas cattle are... well...

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Thoughts from a Working Musician In Nashville

Justin Ahmanson — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 13:00:00 +0000

“Nashville has a long history of songwriting.” This was something that I heard over and over when I moved here in the fall of 2017. At the time, I didn’t understand that this statement was actually an insight into how the music industry operates. To me, the word “songwriter” wasn’t much different from the word […]

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Automated Copyright Administration – Where Technology Meets Process

Colin Moriarty — Fri, 22 May 2020 06:00:00 +0000

In the last two decades, we have watched the music industry explode with innovation. Today, all that is required to listen to nearly any piece of musical content is an internet connection. Likewise, the basic tools necessary for creating said content now come pre-packaged with most computers. These simple facts are often taken for granted, as is the value we assign to music and those who are responsible for bringing it to our devices.

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Applying Fuzzy Matching to Composition Metadata

Justin Ahmanson — Mon, 04 May 2020 16:24:49 +0000

At Muserk, we spend a great deal of time and effort claiming royalties on behalf of composition copyright holders. Part of this process involves matching metadata we receive from clients to metadata generated by streaming services known as record linkage. One of the techniques we use to solve this problem is called fuzzy matching.

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