https://speakerdeck.com/tobym 2014-08-01 18:54:46 -0400 Experiences and observations on recruiting, interviewing, and hiring at a growing startup. Experiences and observations on recruiting, interviewing, and hiring at a growing startup. Tue, 17 May 2016 00:00:00 -0400 https://speakerdeck.com/tobym/tales-from-the-whiteboard https://speakerdeck.com/tobym/tales-from-the-whiteboard Tapad's data pipeline is an elastic combination of technologies (Kafka, Hadoop, Avro, Scalding) that forms a reliable system for analytics, realtime and batch graph-building, and logging. In this talk, I will speak about the creation and evolution of the pipeline, and a concrete example – a day in the life of an event tracking pixel. We'll also talk about common challenges that we've overcome such as integrating different pieces of the system, schema evolution, queuing, and data retention policies. Tapad's data pipeline is an elastic combination of technologies (Kafka, Hadoop, Avro, Scalding) that forms a reliable system for analytics, realtime and batch graph-building, and logging. In this talk, I will speak about the creation and evolution of the pipeline, and a concrete example – a day in the life of an event tracking pixel. We'll also talk about common challenges that we've overcome such as integrating different pieces of the system, schema evolution, queuing, and data retention policies. Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0400 https://speakerdeck.com/tobym/data-pipeline-at-tapad https://speakerdeck.com/tobym/data-pipeline-at-tapad How Tapad's ad-tech platform scales to hundreds of thousands of requests per second using Aerospike key-value database. How Tapad's ad-tech platform scales to hundreds of thousands of requests per second using Aerospike key-value database. Thu, 31 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0400 https://speakerdeck.com/tobym/tap-into-the-secrets-of-tapads-success https://speakerdeck.com/tobym/tap-into-the-secrets-of-tapads-success