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(Relatively) Painless Email Coding
(Relatively) Painless Email Coding
Email Development at Next Big Sound
Cynthia Meng
Dec 4, 2017
How Pandora Is Tackling Staleness In Streaming-Based Charts
How Pandora Is Tackling Staleness In Streaming-Based Charts
Streaming data is quickly becoming the most useful indicator of American music consumption behavior, especially now that revenue from…
Shannon Hughes
Apr 7, 2017
How We Auto-Verify MySQL Backups Nightly at Next Big Sound
How We Auto-Verify MySQL Backups Nightly at Next Big Sound
A brief note on (unintentional) timeliness: I actually began this short article a few months ago, to provide a high-level overview of the…
Zoh Rothberg
Mar 7, 2017
Application Scheduling At Next Big Sound
Application Scheduling At Next Big Sound
If you choose a simple solution that truly does not meet your needs then you have not done the right thing for yourself or your users.
Mark Selby
Sep 15, 2016
Code is for HUMANS
Code is for HUMANS
Programming languages are for the convenience of people, not for computers.
Rich Haase
Mar 26, 2016
Profile Redesign: Case Study
Profile Redesign: Case Study
On Leading the Overhaul of Next Big Sound’s Most Popular Report
Karl Sluis
Feb 9, 2016
Edge Case Design
Edge Case Design
I’m obsessed with edge cases.
Sam Pucci
Apr 14, 2015
A/B Testing Visualizations
A/B Testing Visualizations
or, The Best Five Dollars I Ever Spent
Karl Sluis
Mar 2, 2015
How is Project Leadership Like a Road Trip?
How is Project Leadership Like a Road Trip?
I recently lead a four-month-long project to redesign Next Big Sound’s Profile page, the core of our product’s offering. I’d like to share…
Karl Sluis
Dec 15, 2014
Predicting iTunes Sales Through the Anatomy of Music
Predicting iTunes Sales Through the Anatomy of Music
by Eric Czech
Next Big Sound
Sep 17, 2014
Iterating on Iterations
Iterating on Iterations
A Year-Long Evolution of the Way We Work at Next Big Sound, June 2013–July 2014
Next Big Sound
Jun 12, 2014
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