Monthly Archives: October 2012

Ad-ing Value: How to value tens of millions of ad opportunities per hour

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Steve

[Editor's note: Be sure to catch Steve presenting "Rapid Iteration with Python: Scaling AppNexus" with Dave Himrod at PyData NYC on October 26, 2012] AppNexus serves nearly 10 billion ads per day. On average our ad servers serve over 100k … Continue reading →

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Testing in Python: using Django

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Yuki

As promised! Let’s dig in to how we run tests using Django. We run a web server using apache where the code is written using Django. We put information regarding the state of the optmization worker jobs, advertiser/publisher data upload … Continue reading →

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Testing in Python: using nose & mocks

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Yuki

Here on the AppNexus Optimization team, we write code to optimize algorithms for our customers. We want to write good great code, so of course we test our code. We write and unit test our code in Python and run … Continue reading →

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Surge 2012: Pete Emerson presents “Load Balancers at High Scale: A Disappearing Act”

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Jessica

Pete Emerson, our Director of Tech Operations, spoke at Surge Conference 2012.  He discussed our scale engineering challenges and solutions to a crowd of 400 technologists and engineers. Pete’s presentation walks through the costs and benefits of using load balancers versus … Continue reading →

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