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  • The new code formatter for Erlang: rebar3 format

    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 :)

    By Brujo Benavides
  • How NextRoll encourages Engineering and Friends to take a week off to build amazing stuff!

    In this post, we’ll explore how NextRoll’s Hack Week tradition encourages collaboration between different teams and organizations to make projects together

    By Alex Leu
  • How NextRoll leverages AWS Batch for daily business operations

    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.

    By Roozbeh Zabihollahi
  • Interning at NextRoll

    ‘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.

    By Nitisha Agarwal
  • HyperLogLog in Python

    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.

    By Jonathan Aquino
  • Can Engineering principles solve sales problems?

    When solving problems that are people and process oriented, can engineering methodologies be used? Below are our findings!

    By Farah Khan
  • HyperLogLog in PostgreSQL Amazon Aurora RDS

    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.

    By Piyush Srivastava
  • AdRoll Group and The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation

    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.

    By Brujo Benavides
  • Series: Tech Women of AdRoll Group

    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.

    By Devin Sevilla
  • Spot The Discrepancies with Dialyzer for Erlang

    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.

    By Brujo Benavides
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