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PyData 2012: Rapid Iteration With Python — Scaling AppNexus

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Jessica

At PyData NYC, Dave Himrod and Steve Kannan, respectively our Director and our Engineering Manager of Optimization and Analytics*, delivered the keynote presentation, sharing best practices and lessons learned when iterating and scaling with Python. Unlike other more complicated programming … Continue reading →

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Surge 2012: Mike Nolet presents “From Zero to 500k QPS in Three Years: Scaling AppNexus”

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Jessica

By popular request, a recording of CTO & Co-Founder Mike Nolet’s presentation at Surge 2012 is finally available! For those who don’t want to dig through thousands of cat videos to find it, we’ve posted it here for your convenience. … 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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How to Create HTML & PDF Prototypes Using OmniGraffle Pro

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Julie Blitzer

An important step in the Lean UX process is continuous validation of design ideas, especially early in your process. We are lucky enough to have a UI Engineer (shout out to Dan Hahn!) on our team who builds high-fidelity prototypes, … Continue reading →

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