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Welcome to Signal’s /dev/log!
At Signal, our mission is to create the infrastructure for the next 20 years of digital marketing. We started in 2010 as “BrightTag”, with the goal to define and enable a more efficient and transparent...
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Signal’s Wavelength
Before diving deeper into any one area of the Signal tech stack in later articles, I wanted to give an overview of how our technology is built, laid-out, deployed, and managed. I love working in our...
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Signal Chooses Apache Cassandra for its Distributed Data Store
At Signal we’ve been running Apache Cassandra in production since late 2011. However, before settling on Cassandra, we evaluated it alongside other NoSQL contenders. The main benefit that led us to...
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Other Languages
System.out.println(“bonjour tout le monde”) No wait, that was terrible. Let me say that again. print “hola mundo” I apologize, I should have said, printf(“hello world”) Most of us have learned how to...
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Exception handling in Node.js
A few months ago I began working on one of our backend Node.js applications. The application in question was not as stable as we needed it to be, and as I began to talk with former colleagues at...
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Uniting User Experience through the Signal Design Guild
A meeting of the Signal Design Guild As a thriving tech company, we’ve had our share of growing pains as we scale our organization. Among those is the challenge of maintaining consistent design...
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It’s Better Than Bad, It’s GOOD!
Let’s talk about logs. Everybody logs, but what do we do with them? Do they sit on on your machines, dutifully being compressed and rotated, hoping that someone will eventually look at them? Are they...
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Developer Spotlight: Dancer and Engineer Annie Wang
Annie Wang, dancer and Signal engineer At Signal, we believe you can’t have a great people-based marketing platform without an awesome people-based engineering team. So today, we’re going to introduce...
View ArticleWelcome to Signal’s /dev/log!
At Signal, our mission is to create the infrastructure for the next 20 years of digital marketing. We started in 2010 as “BrightTag”, with the goal to define and enable a more efficient and transparent...
View ArticleSignal’s Wavelength
Before diving deeper into any one area of the Signal tech stack in later articles, I wanted to give an overview of how our technology is built, laid-out, deployed, and managed. I love working in our...
View ArticleSignal Chooses Apache Cassandra for its Distributed Data Store
At Signal we’ve been running Apache Cassandra in production since late 2011. However, before settling on Cassandra, we evaluated it alongside other NoSQL contenders. The main benefit that led us to...
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Other Languages
System.out.println(“bonjour tout le monde”) No wait, that was terrible. Let me say that again. print “hola mundo” I apologize, I should have said, printf(“hello world”) Most of us have learned how to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exception Handling in Node.js
A few months ago I began working on one of our backend Node.js applications. The application in question was not as stable as we needed it to be, and as I began to talk with former colleagues at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Uniting User Experience through the Signal Design Guild
A meeting of the Signal Design Guild As a thriving tech company, we’ve had our share of growing pains as we scale our organization. Among those is the challenge of maintaining consistent design...
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It’s Better Than Bad, It’s GOOD!
Let’s talk about logs. Everybody logs, but what do we do with them? Do they sit on on your machines, dutifully being compressed and rotated, hoping that someone will eventually look at them? Are they...
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Developer Spotlight: Dancer and Engineer Annie Wang
Annie Wang, dancer and Signal engineer At Signal, we believe you can’t have a great people-based marketing platform without an awesome people-based engineering team. So today, we’re going to introduce...
View ArticleKafka Consumer Assignments
I recently had the opportunity to work on a project upgrading one of Signal’s Redis-based message broker pipelines to Apache Kafka. At Signal, we use Kafka extensively to scale our real-time data...
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