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NextRoll
Company blog · tech.adroll.com/blogdataprogrammingai
NextRoll is the company blog at tech.adroll.com, writing about data, programming and ai. Since 2013, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 87 times, most often “D is for Data Science”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the AdRoll (NextRoll) engineering blog, mainly for its data engineering posts such as the write-up on MinHash sketches for estimating set intersections alongside HyperLogLog. Many links come from hiring threads.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Big Data, Real Time Bidding, 50TB+/day, 1 million+ qps, 100ms, Python, Java, Erlang, C, JavaScript, Cutting Edge WebDev, Machine Learning, Open Source Projects
Most-linked posts?
- D is for Data Science4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-11-24
- How to Run a Front-End Infrastructure Team4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-08-29
- HyperLogLog and MinHash3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-12-07
- Factorization Machines2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-09-08
- /blog/2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-03-01
- /blog/frontend/2015/11/19/rollup-major-learnings.html2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-06-01
- Streaming Petabytes of Data in Realtime with Kinesis2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-06-29
- Querying Data in Amazon S3 Directly with User-Space Page Fault Handling2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-11-29
- Managing Containerized Data Pipeline Dependencies with Luigi2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-10-19
- Collider: A New Frontier in Testing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-29
What Hacker News says?
AdRoll - San Francisco If you like languages such as Python, JS, C, D, Lua, Erlang, AWS, and/or petabytes of data, this is your dream job. AdRoll is one of the most widely used adtech companies, already producing $100M+ in revenue with a small engineering team. Just last week we open-sourced a core part of our data infrastructure, TrailDB: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11762801 http://tech.adroll.com/blog/dat…
Comment linking /blog/frontend/2015/11/19/rollup-major-learnings.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)”Submitted TrailDB – An Efficient Library for Storing and Processing Event Data as a story · 212 points
HN discussionIf you like developing open-source code, languages such as Python, Go, JS, C, D, Lua, Erlang, AWS, petabytes of data, and distributed low-latency systems, this may be your dream job. This time we are particularly interested in finding data scientist, full stack web developers with good JavaScript experience and experienced Erlang developers / tech leads. This is a really unique opportunity to get to work with a mass…
Comment linking /blog/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”Submitted Hologram: taking EC2 Instance Roles everywhere as a story · 84 points
HN discussionAdRoll - San Francisco If you like developing open-source code, languages such as Python, JS, C, D, Lua, Erlang, AWS, petabytes of data, this may be your dream job. AdRoll is one of the most widely used adtech companies, already producing $100M+ in revenue with a small engineering team. Recently we open-sourced a core part of our data infrastructure, TrailDB: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11762801 http://tech…
Comment linking /blog/frontend/2015/11/05/rollup-shared-ui-components.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted Petabyte-Scale Data Pipelines with Docker, Luigi and Elastic Spot Instances as a story · 51 points
HN discussionAdRoll | San Francisco | On-site/remote | Full-time If you like developing open-source code, languages such as Python, Go, JS, C, D, Lua, Erlang, AWS, petabytes of data, and distributed low-latency systems, this may be your dream job. This time we are particularly interested in finding data scientist, full stack web developers with good JavaScript experience and experienced Erlang developers / tech leads. This is a…
Comment linking /blog/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)”Submitted HyperLogLog and MinHash as a story · 47 points
HN discussionAdRoll | San Francisco, CA | Full time Senior UI Engineer (React, Redux, JavaScript ES6/ES7, private npm, Browserify/Webpack, SASS) Our Frontend Core team is looking for a seasoned engineer with a passion for world-class UX design and elegant UI development workflows. As part of this small team of senior developers and designers, you get to make a big impact building reusable React components and implementing our ne…
Comment linking /blog/frontend/2015/11/19/rollup-major-learnings.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)”Submitted How AdRoll monitors high-performance Erlang deployments with exometer as a story · 34 points
HN discussionAdRoll - San Francisco If you like languages such as Python, JS, C, D, Lua, Erlang, AWS, and/or petabytes of data, this is your dream job. AdRoll is one of the fastest growing adtech companies, already producing $100M+ in revenue with a small engineering team. To give an idea how we work, recently we launched a new product on top of a novel data processing pipeline on AWS using Docker, read more about it here: http:…
Comment linking /blog/rtb/2016/04/29/collider.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)”Submitted Factorization Machines as a story · 30 points
HN discussionAdRoll | San Francisco, CA | Full time Senior UI Engineer (React, Redux, JavaScript ES6/ES7, private npm, Browserify/Webpack, SASS) Our frontend team is looking for a seasoned engineer with a passion for world-class UX design and elegant UI development workflows. As part of this small team of senior developers and designers, you get to make a big impact building reusable React components and implementing our new sty…
Comment linking /blog/frontend/2015/11/19/rollup-major..
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)”Submitted D is for Data Science as a story · 26 points
HN discussionAdRoll | San Francisco, CA | Full time Senior UI Engineer (React, Redux, JavaScript ES6/ES7, private npm, Browserify/Webpack, SASS) Our frontend team is looking for a seasoned engineer with a passion for world-class UX design and elegant UI development workflows. As part of this small team of senior developers and designers, you get to make a big impact building reusable React components and implementing our new sty…
Comment linking /blog/frontend/2015/11/19/rollup-major-learnings.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)”Submitted Managing Containerized Data Pipelines as a story · 15 points
HN discussionAdRoll - San Francisco If you like languages such as Python, JS, C, D, Lua, Erlang, AWS, and/or petabytes of data, this is your dream job. AdRoll is one of the fastest growing adtech company, already producing $100M+ in revenue with a small engineering team. To give an idea how we work, recently we launched a new product on top of a novel data processing pipeline on AWS using Docker, read more about it here: http://…
Comment linking /blog/data-science/2015/08/25/factorization-machines.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)”Submitted Trck: querying discrete time series with state machines as a story · 13 points
HN discussionAdRoll - San Francisco If you like languages such as Python, JS, C, D, Lua, Erlang, AWS, and/or petabytes of data, this is your dream job. AdRoll is one of the fastest growing adtech companies, already producing $100M+ in revenue with a small engineering team. To give an idea how we work, recently we launched a new product on top of a novel data processing pipeline on AWS using Docker, read more about it here: http:…
Comment linking /blog/data-science/2015/08/25/factorization-machines.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)”Submitted Querying Data in Amazon S3 Directly with User-Space Page Fault Handling as a story · 12 points
HN discussionAdRoll | San Francisco | On-site/remote | Full-time If you like developing open-source code, languages such as Python, JS, C, D, Lua, Erlang, AWS, petabytes of data, and distributed low-latency systems, this may be your dream job. This time we are particularly interested in finding data scientists and experienced Erlang developers / tech leads. This is a really unique opportunity to get to work with a massive scale…
Comment linking /blog/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)”Submitted Streaming Petabytes of Data in Realtime with Kinesis as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAdRoll - San Francisco If you like languages such as Python, JS, C, D, Lua, Erlang, AWS, and/or petabytes of data, this is your dream job. AdRoll is one of the fastest growing adtech company, already producing $100M+ in revenue with a small engineering team. To give an idea how we work, recently we launched a new product on top of a novel data processing pipeline on AWS using Docker, read more about it here: http://…
Comment linking /blog/data-science/2015/08/25/factorization-machines.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)”Submitted Managing Containerized Data Pipeline Dependencies with Luigi as a story · 8 points
HN discussionLooks like that link got cut off, likely copied from a prior post. The following link should resolve: http://tech.adroll.com/blog/frontend/2017/08/29/how-to-run-a...
Comment linking /blog/frontend/2017/08/29/how-to-run-a-front-end-infrastructure-team.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)”Submitted Show HN: AirControl, control AirPlay Mirroring from your terminal as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAdRoll | San Francisco | On-site/remote | Full-time If you like developing open-source code, languages such as Python, Go, JS, C, D, Lua, Erlang, AWS, petabytes of data, and distributed low-latency systems, this may be your dream job. This time we are particularly interested in finding full stack web developers with good JavaScript experience and experienced developers, tech leads and data scientists with great math…
Comment linking /blog/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)”Submitted Quaff that potion: saving $millions with Elixir and Erlang as a story · 7 points
HN discussionAdRoll - San Francisco If you like languages such as Python, JS, C, D, Lua, Erlang, AWS, and/or petabytes of data, this is your dream job. AdRoll is one of the fastest growing adtech company, already producing $100M+ in revenue with a small engineering team. To give an idea how we work, recently we launched a new product on top of a novel data processing pipeline on AWS using Docker, read more about it here: http://…
Comment linking /blog/data-science/2015/08/25/factorization-machines.html
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)”Submitted $ marks the spot: saving a ton with EC2 Spot Fleet as a story · 6 points
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