Monthly Archives: December 2012

A Hadoop Success Story: Horizontally Scaling Our Data Pipeline

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Jessica

With 2000% growth in 2011, a data pipeline bursting at the seams, and 24/7/365 uptime, AppNexus engineers faced a task likened to changing the engine of a 747 in midflight. In order to horizontally scale the pipeline and data reporting, … Continue reading →

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What we do for fun… redux

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Jessica

Here’s a little ditty Rick and Brett whipped up for AppNexus Summit NYC 2012. Enjoy!

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Intern Series: Diary of an Ad Server Intern

Posted on December 4, 2012 by John the Intern

These days, the guys and gals on the data pipeline team find themselves in an interesting position: wrangling 20TB of billing data and records into databases and data warehouses every single day. Our optimization team couldn’t be more pleased: the … Continue reading →

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