How to Have a Successful Hackathon
If your company is anything like AppNexus, your engineers are heads down solving your tough business problems. There might not be as much time as they’d like to work on a really interesting problem...
View ArticleIntern Series: Diary of an Ad Server 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...
View ArticleWhat we do for fun… redux
Here’s a little ditty Rick and Brett whipped up for AppNexus Summit NYC 2012. Enjoy!
View ArticleWe are made in NY
Can you spot the AppNexus shark? (hint after the jump) AppNexus is proud to be made and coded in NYC. We are also developing around the world in eight cities, five countries, and three continents*....
View ArticleEng@Scale: Building and Scaling a Test-Driven Culture
AppNexus recently had Daniel “dB” Doubrovkine in the house as a part of our Engineering@Scale speaker series to talk to us about building and scaling a test-driven culture. dB is the head of...
View ArticleNonblocking Algorithms and Scalable Multicore Programming
Some weeks ago I was invited to write an article and help design a practitioner section for an upcoming CACM on concurrency. Some of the articles are now available online at:...
View ArticleAppNexus Engineering@Scale: 3 Failures and 1 (BIG) Success
AppNexus Co-Founder and CEO Brian O’Kelley has built one of New York’s greatest startup successes. While AppNexus exploded on the scene and never looked back, the making of Brian O’Kelley involved more...
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