Category Archives: Development Process

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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On RESTful API Standards – Just Be Cool: 11 Rules for Practical API Development (part 1 of 2)

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Larry

There are many articles floating around the internet right now about defining RESTful API standards. I’m guessing this is because Ruby on Rails makes it so easy to build an API that everyone and their mom has started building one. … Continue reading →

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Project Hydra – Scaling an API Globally



Posted on April 10, 2012 by Larry

At AppNexus we provide our clients with a RESTful API that allows people to manage all of their data in our adserving echosystem.  The API is built on a LAMP stack with memcache sprinkled in to help out with session … Continue reading →

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Webkit (Chrome, Safari) console.log is broken.

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Sam

Chrome and Safari have a pretty serious bug where console.log() does not log variables as they are at the time of calling console.log(), but rather as they are some time in the future.  If you’re not aware of it, you … Continue reading →

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