Google Calendar + Arduino = The Roominator

Last week was our quarterly Hackweek, and this time around a handful of us set out to solve a slightly more physical problem than we usually tackle: conference room abuse. We have nine conference rooms in our office these days, and even though we…

Announcing Hank: A Fast, Open-Source, Batch-Updatable, Distributed Key-Value Store

We’re really excited to announce the open-source debut of a cool piece of LiveRamp’s internal infrastructure, a distributed database project we call Hank.

Adventures in Java Garbage Collection Tuning

Recently we noticed some intermittent performance issues with our APIs and traced the problem back to garbage collection pauses. This post describes how we identified the problem, what it taught us about Java’s concurrent mark-and-sweep garbage…

Can You Solve this Tropical Puzzle?

This strange brain teaser has been circulating around our office recently. We’ve come up with a few different plausible solutions. Can you solve it?

1000 people live on a tropical paradise island. They are all really smart and always act…