In recent years, many language ecosystems have developed automatic code formatters to reduce the mental overhead of code readers and therefore to share code more easily. These tools work by ensuring that all code written in the same language looks the same. Some examples of these tools include gofmt for Go or mix format for Elixir. The Erlang community was lacking a tool like this, so we created one :)
In this post, we’ll explore how NextRoll’s Hack Week tradition encourages collaboration between different teams and organizations to make projects together
In this blog post, we are going to review how NextRoll is using AWS Batch for processing data, and how we benefit from this platform. We will start with an overview of the company and explain our needs for data pipelines. Then we’ll talk about how we are utilizing Batch, reviewing the advantages and disadvantages of this technology. Finally, we will show you Batchiepatchie, the product that we have introduced to overcome the challenges presented by Batch.
‘Cali or Bust’. Anyone in the math faculty’s co-op program at the University of Waterloo can tell you what that means – wanting to land a sweet internship in California or nothing at all. I’m currently in my 4th co-op (out of 6), and since my first application period, I had become accustomed to the norm of dreaming about a term in California.
We recently open-sourced python-hll, which is an implementation of HyperLogLog whose goal is to be storage compatible with postgresql-hll, js-hll, and java-hll.
When solving problems that are people and process oriented, can engineering methodologies be used? Below are our findings!
HyperLogLog (HLL) is a useful and interesting probabilistic data structure used to count unique values in a given data set with good accuracy and speed. Having this data type in a PostgreSQL-compatible Relational Database system fulfills various reporting needs to measure metrics like unique visitors.
We recently decided to sponsor the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation. Learn more about it, the reasons behind our sponsorship, and the other ways in which we’re contributing with it.
In celebration of International Women’s Day 2019 and National Women’s History Month, we’re continuing our tradition of highlighting Tech Women at AdRoll Group.
Dialyzer is a great tool to validate Erlang code, but it might slow down your development process if devs are applying it to huge codebases constantly. That’s why we added it to our CI pipelines instead. In the process we learned a few things that might be useful for you as well.