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The AdRoll Engineering team hosts Tech Talks every other Tuesday, where members of our team, and friends, share about a technology, project, or tool they’re excited about. A few weeks ago, we hoted Lee Byron, author of Immutable.js and other great things at Facebook.
AdRoll is building products that allow customers of any size, big or small, with a lot of marketing experience or none, to run high performing marketing campaigns. And with over 20,000 customers in over 150 countries, we’ve been fairly successful in this.
AWS Keys are sensitive cryptographic material that should not be left lying around in code, repositories, or even on developers’ laptops. In EC2, this is solved by assigning Instance Roles and letting the metadata service generate temporary credentials. Outside of EC2, we have solved this using Hologram, an open-source project from AdRoll Engineering.
The advertising industry has undeniably become a data play, as consumers are generating valuable data with every digital interaction. We hear buzzwords like “big data,” “machine learning” and “real-time algorithms,” but little about how these puzzle pieces fit together …
The D programming language has quickly become our language of choice on the Data Science team for any task that requires efficiency, and is now the keystone language for our critical infrastructure. Why? Because D has a lot to offer.
Shiny is an amazing package that allows for the creation of powerful interactive dashboards in R without having to mess with HTML, CSS or JavaScript. This means we can turn any analysis project into an interactive web application with minimal effort.
During one of our hack days, we built a tool to control AirPlay Mirroring from the terminal.
Bulk loading is a great way to import large amounts of data into an HBase cluster. However, the default tools included in Hadoop do not provide the ability to bulk load multiple tables at once. Here’s how we added that functionality.
Earlier this week, AdRoll hosted a group of Hadoop users and developers for their monthly meetup. A member of our data team presented AdRoll’s infrastructure and described how we combine Hadoop with Storm and HBase to achieve both high accuracy and low latency.
Continuing with our video posts, here is Valentino once again, this time presenting at the 2014 AWS Summit in San Francisco. Valentino discusses how to handle 50 billion requests per day without breaking the bank by optimizing our AWS operations.