Tapad

Tapad is a technology company which created the first real-time advertising platform for smart devices, such as smartphones and smartTVs. Tapad combines audience intelligence and cross-device targeting, enabling advertisers to reach consumers no matter what device they are using. Tapad’s cloud-based, open platform is scalable to billions of ad impressions per day, providing unprecedented transparency and flexibility when buying smartphone and smartTV ads.

Location: New York, NY
 

This talk is by , VP of Engineering at Tapad,  recorded at the Aerospike facilites.

Dag Liodden, Co-Founder and CTO of Tapad, joined the Wikibon community to discuss the tools and technology that Tapad uses to make real-time decisions for ad placement.

 

Bio…

 

Gig_Company_Logo-tapadTapad is looking for outstanding back end engineers who are interested in the challenges of building scalable, low latency systems. Engineers who deeply understand the limitations of the languages, frameworks and applications they’ve used and seek (or make open source contributions towards) something better.
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  •  June 15, 2013
  •   Tapad
 

Dag Liodden, VP of Engineering at Tapad, an NYC startup in the mobile advertising space, talks with me about what Tapad does, the high-scale requirements of their business, and why they moved off the cloud.

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Next -> Scala – How Tapad Uses It & Why They Chose It

 

Dag talks about the Scala language, its features and how they use it at Tapad. He also talks about why they chose Scala, as well as some of the interesting ways they use it to interoperate with Java

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Next -> Not-only SQL – How Tapad Uses Different DBs for Different Needs

 

Dag talks about their No (“not-only”) SQL strategy and how they optimize their platform with different types of data stores for their various needs. We also have an interesting conversation about column-oriented dbs.

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Next -> What’s it Like to be an Engineer at Tapad?

 

We discuss the team aspects of working at Tapad, what they’re looking for in engineers, and their unique approach to building a first-class team.

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Pete: Hey, it’s Pete. I’m here in New York. And today we’re talking to Dag from Tapad. Dag’s the founder and VP of engineering. Thanks for being with us, Dag.

Dag: Thank you for coming.

Pete: So, first of all, tell us a little bit at a high level, what is Tapad? What do you guys do?

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