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What Is Technical Debt? Technical debt is pretty much any code anyone wrote last week. It’s all around us, binds us, and basically duct-tapes-and-glues the tech world together. Tech Debt is a part of life and, while we all want ... Read More »

Nowadays, user interface design is a costly process that requires effort from a lot of people, including developers, designers, testers, product managers and so on. Companies usually create interfaces consisting of many independent components that can be reused. At the same time, ... Read More »

  Введение В наши дни разработка интерфейса является достаточно затратным процессом который требует усилий от множества людей, разработчиков, дизайнеров, тестировщиков продукт менеджеров и так далее. Компании все чаще прибегают к написанию интерфейса состоящего из множества независимых компонентов, которые могут быть ... Read More »

At Conductor, our systems generate over 10 million lines of logs every day. On a particularly busy day, we can break 30 million lines. When the DevOps team started using the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) to help us ... Read More »

As companies, products and teams evolve so do development practices. At Conductor we frequently identify areas for opportunity when working on Searchlight. Over the years we have made leaps and bounds in the way we develop, test and deliver high ... Read More »

Today, we’re open sourcing an in-house Java 8 stream utility library, which can aggregate, merge, or join streams in a memory efficient way. To skip right to the code, check out the github repo. Here at Conductor, we build Searchlight, a ... Read More »

Cassandra’s distributed architecture enables a high write throughput compared to other NoSQL and SQL database systems. Most benchmarks focus on incremental writes, but data can also be efficiently ingested by Cassandra in bulk. Bulk loading is an attractive option when ... Read More »

What’s Data Compression? Data compression provides a means by which a system can improve I/O performance by shrinking the data being transmitted between stores and processes. Anyone who uses the Internet knows that downloading an immense file takes noticeably longer ... Read More »

Some organizations do not proceed with a project until they have an agreed-upon test plan. Some organizations write them along the way. And some organizations never get around to thinking about them at all. To start, let’s talk about what ... Read More »

This year, Conductor adopted a new method of showcasing engineering accomplishments that promotes interdepartmental communication. Twice a month, we engineers put on our orange t-shirts, and go to the Conductor Café to speak about what our team has worked on ... Read More »