Here at LiveRamp, we use make heavy use of Apache Thrift. In some cases, we have Thrift clients in long-running processes. A variety of issues can cause these clients to disconnect, including:

1. Transient problems with the network

Our build environment at LiveRamp includes quite a few actively developed library projects, both open-source and internal. Since engineers are often coordinating changes between libraries and downstream projects when adding or refactoring…

We’ve been using Backbone.js to organize our JavaScript code for a little over a year now. Backbone packages our client-side code into an MVC-like structure and exposes a well documented set of APIs to interact with the DOM. We picked it from amongst many such…

Hank is an open source distributed key-value NoSQL database that we built and use at…

We’re happy to announce that we’ve added a new tool built on top of Cascading, called MultiCombiner, to our open source project cascading_ext. MultiCombiner allows one to run arbitrarily many aggregation operations, each with their own distinct grouping fields, over a single stream of tuples using only…