At GumGum, we hold several internal engineering conferences during the year. If your organization wants to host an internal conference so that you can share triumphs, struggles, and new innovations, this essay is for you. We’ve had great success at GumGum doing these internal conferences, and we’ve gotten a good…

Workflow management systems are mainly used to represent workflows as a collection of tasks and dependencies between them. Based on the use case and the Quality of Service requirements, a lot of variations in workflow management systems can be found. The most common representation is in the form of Directed…

Developing basic websites with Hugo is simple and fast, but what if we wanted to bring it to another level and use JavaScript frameworks like React or Preact? Integrating these two technologies can be tricky sometimes as you need to spend some time configuring it, and in the end it…

Overview In this series of blog posts, we are going to discuss the process of integrating Verity, GumGum’s Contextual Intelligence and Brand Safety service, with a Demand-Side Platform (DSP) used for matching ads to content. In this first installment of the series, we will examine the topic of Real-Time Bidding (RTB)…

A Tale As Old As Time (Or At Least Since 1840) Once upon a time, the business that employed you had a beautiful glass slipper, a set of use-cases that accurately represented their business needs. The developers, hopped up on caffeine and optimism, discussed and planned meticulously for many software solutions to aid in these business needs, and after many pros-and-cons…

An Article By Ying Liu and Brendan Frick Background Dimensions and Explores When modeling data in Looker, Tableau, and similar BI tools, we think of our data in terms of measures and dimensions. Measures are quantitative fields that can be aggregated — views, clicks, number of videos fully completed, etc. …

With the advent of Deep Learning, we have some of the most sophisticated image classifiers available to us today, that offer performance which seemed improbable just a decade ago. The progress on the image classification task has been so tremendous, that the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC), arguably…

Prometheus is an excellent service to monitor your containerized applications. Still, it can get expensive quickly if you ingest all of the Kube-state-metrics metrics, and you are probably not even using them all. …

Teaching a machine to categorize something into multiple, non-exclusive groups can feel a little lot juggling. You’ve got to keep track of a lot of things and if any one thing gets out of balance, everything can come crashing down. Here at GumGum, we use machine learning and AI to…