The Winner's Curse
The winner’s curse is a simple, yet surprising, statistical phenomenon seen in auctions. This post explains the winner’s curse, and explores the way the curse manifests itself in our ad-buying systems.
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Ship it! with ecs-ship
Having a fast and reliable way to update your deployment environments is a game changer in terms of team velocity and confidence. ecs-ship is a simple yet powerful tool that can help your team ship faster.
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rebar3_hank: The Erlang Dead Code Cleaner
From the creators of rebar3_format, here comes… rebar3_hank, a powerful but simple tool to detect dead code around your Erlang codebase (and kill it with fire!)
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Chasing a Performance Regression with Erlang/OTP 22
Updating the underlying systems that our service depends on (including operating system, VMs, core libraries, databases, or other components) is a regular part of our systems’ lifecycle. In this post, we’ll discuss how we found a performance regression when updating to a newer Erlang OTP release, the steps we took to investigate it, and how we worked around the specific issue at hand.
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How NextRoll is Supporting Our Rollers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Our Rollers (employees) are the most essential “ingredient” to our success and culture. This pandemic is like nothing any of us have been through before. So, as we navigate this time with our Rollers, we want to ensure they are being supported… but we can’t read their minds!
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Coordinated Cost Savings
Reducing costs on infrastructure can often feel like a chore when done in isolation. In this post, we’ll discuss the coordinated process that NextRoll is using to make the effort feel like a full-team project with the satisfaction of having a job well done.
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How to save a lot of money with a Baker in the spot market?
How we replaced a data processing pipeline in Java with a new one written in Go, moving our infrastructure to EC2 spot instances spread across the globe, with a final saving of 85%.
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How I became the first Latina remote engineer
It’s been 2 years working remotely as a Software Engineer at NextRoll, a tech company in Silicon Valley. When I started the journey to find a new job, I was simply motivated to be open to new challenges.
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Squeezing the most out of the server: Erlang Profiling
In this article we outline how we profile our Erlang system to drive optimizations that lead to cost reductions.
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Women in Tech Spotlight: Larissa Licha
NextRoll’s Women History Month Series – Larissa Licha