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Dec 16, 2015

Software Transactional Memory is Simple

Another installment of our ongoing series of tech talks has just hit the youtubes. Paul Khuong, previously of this fame, brings us “Software Transactional Memory is Simple” which takes us into the innards of the AppNexus real time platform and how we do…

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Oct 27, 2015

Stopping Invalid Traffic using Spark Streaming, Kafka, and Science!

The Signals Intelligence group (SIGINT) within AppNexus Data Science has the responsibility of identifying and stopping invalid traffic as quickly as possible. One technique they use to achieve this very quickly…

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Oct 4, 2015

Introduction to the Actor Model for Concurrent Computation

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Jun 22, 2015

Taming Big Data

The Data Platform Engineering Team at AppNexus has been utilizing Hadoop in production for the last 4+ years. Growth of data volume as well as the number of customer use cases supported by Hadoop’s infrastructure has grown exponentially since we adopted the Hadoop stack. More specifically, in 2012…

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Jan 31, 2016

Real Time Big Data

Lambda architectures for Big Data sprung out of the concept that stream processing is fast but inaccurate. So you needed to have a fast but less accurate streaming path along with a slower, accurate batch path. With the advent of technologies like Ratsoda and Samza, this is no longer the case.

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Jul 27, 2016

Facebook Infrastructure at Scale

Learn about the creation and evolution of the Release To Production (RTP) Team at Facebook. The RTP…

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Jun 5, 2016

How Test Environments Enabled Organizational Growth

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May 4, 2016

How to build, manage and scale an effective engineering organization ft. Stack Overflow CEO Joel Spolsky

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Apr 5, 2016

Lessons learned in distributed systems disasters

The latest installment of our ongoing Tech Talk @ AppNexus videos is now live on YouTube. Watch John Wittrock, Senior Software Engineer on the Real-Time Platform team, tell a variety of disaster stories that illustrate the challenges of and…