Amazon Web Services Blog: FlightCaster – AWS-Powered Flight Delay Prediction

According to a short article in SD Times, the site and the applications were built in just four months on a budget of less than a million dollars. The developers used a number of advanced technologies including Hadoop, Clojure, and Cascading. Clojure is a dynamic scripting language with a LISP-like syntax, running on top of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Cascading is a very high-level workflow language. It runs on top of Hadoop. They used this technology to build a system which can do predictive AI, literally forecasting the future.
(Link: Amazon Web Services Blog: FlightCaster – AWS-Powered Flight Delay Prediction)