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Calculating Git Version
Hello Git user. In this blog post I will discuss a technique for a unique version calculation for every Git commit. You may ask why we need this, after all every commit in Git is identified by a...
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DIY: Engineering Your Company Culture
This is a tale of heroism, of overcoming obstacles and hardships. This is a tale of ingenuity, of originality and thinking outside the box. This is a tale… of how I was too lazy to go and look if...
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How Re2 Shattered My Bottleneck
One pleasant morning I got to work, thinking this day couldn’t get any better. But as Murphy would have it, there was my boss walking frantically toward me. It turned out that almost over night one of...
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Zooming Past the Competition
Imagine you’re walking down the street and you see a nice car you’re thinking of buying. Just by pointing your phone camera, you can see relevant content about that car. How cool is that?! That was our...
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How We Stopped Being Afraid of 3rd Party Scripts
The web is full of third-party scripts. Sites use them for ads, analytics, retargeting, and more. But this isn’t always the whole story. Scripts are unpredictable, they execute code, but you don’t...
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Where did my cookies go??
If you are using web cookies to operate your online business you probably know already that just like in real life, cookies do not last long. This is an especially known fact to whoever uses online...
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Leveraging Vertica Performance by Reducing CPU System Calls
What is the connection between kernel system calls and database performance, and how can we improve performance by reducing the number of system calls? Performance of any database system depends on...
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Fun with (Feature) Flags
Writing features as added chunks into an ever growing one bulk of code is unorganized and messy. Overtime, the tasks of testing new behaviors becomes harder and harder. Why is that? Chunky Code is hard...
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High Scale Service Deployment: Taboola’s Recommended Flow
This post is not about K8S – nor is it about AWS. It is not about containers – nor is it about some new, “cool” technology for managing large-scale applications. Rather, this post is about how we...
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The Challenges of 3rd Party Scripting
Many years have passed since the first time Javascript entered our web pages, turning them from static forms into the dynamic, vivid creatures they are today. Every year, the amount of scripts, styles,...
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