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Engineering @ Scale Series: Kickoff Event Jan. 30

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Jessica

Join us January 30 for our Engineering @ Scale speaker series kickoff event. Our first talk will be “Rapid Iteration With Python: Scaling AppNexus” presented by Optimization and Analytics Director Dave Himrod and Engineering Manager Steve Kannan in our NYC headquarters on January 30 at … Continue reading →

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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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On RESTful API Standards – Just Be Cool: 11 Rules for Practical API Development (part 2 of 2)

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Larry

I posted a few days ago about my ideas for 11 rules for practical API development. Let’s jump back in with rules 6 to 11. 6. Make it easy to understand and navigate through child objects. The fact is it … Continue reading →

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