Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data

Stack is: Java/Hadoop/Tomcat/cloudbase using Machineshop(http://machineshop.io/ ?) data input is protobuf/queries are translated to a map/reduce job by cloudbase Client uses Ext GWT (Java Component UI Library for Google Web Toolkit |)

cloud based, not sure which cloud. Docs aren't clear if machineshop hosts the actual data..wow