Here at Zulily, we use Google Compute Engine (GCE) for running our Hadoop clusters. Google has a utility called bdutil for setting up and tearing down Hadoop clusters on GCE. We ran into a number of issues when using the utility and were using…

On the Relevancy team at Zulily, we are often required to load a large number of large strings into memory. This often causes memory issues. After looking at multiple ways to reduce memory pressure, we settled on Radix Trees to store…