Getting started with Amazon DynamoDB and Java

Preface

Logs collection from AWS Elasticbeanstalk to Splunk

What is AWS Elasticbeanstalk

Solving distributed recursive problems with Akka

Fork join

Fork join model is a parallel programming style that involves recursively splitting tasks into subtasks and then waiting for the computation results and combining them to produce the final result. Workers that…

Wrangling Gigantic Tables in MySQL — Universal Language

Better MySQL Monitoring in Datadog

Why

When we adopted Service Oriented Architecture for Smartling, we adopted an ideology of service ownership, where each team would completely manage it’s own service and infrastructure. For this approach to work, we needed to rethink a few…

Wake up tomorrow and start using ES6

So you want to start using ES6, maybe to impress a co-worker or even your love interest…

Relevant Distance — Finding the Best Matches Fast

For content owners, relevancy is the never-ending pursuit of providing consumers with a more interesting, familiar and engaging experience. Systems and processes are built to more accurately determine relevancy in many contexts — visually…

The Session Sessions: A story of a person, some code, and a dream of non-sticky web sessions

Fast-Track Prototyping

Smartling’s enterprise translation platform is fantastic for big projects — corporate websites, apps, loads of documents — with heaps of features and flexibility for organizing translation any way the client might need. But not all translation happens at such a large scale. What about…