In an effort to reward our most important asset (our team members) the Rubicon Project has officially partnered with BetterWorks, an employee rewards platform based on local perks. Each month, we dish out funds for our team members to use within the platform. Coupled with the amazing amount of discounts negotiated at local businesses like [...]

Culture Matters: 2012

the Rubicon Project has recently teamed up with Betterworks, an employee perks platform that gives its members access to great deals at various places around the Los Angeles and New York area, to add to the many ways we support and reward our team members. We’ve been testing out the platform and are very excited [...]

On October 16th 2011, 20 members of the Rubicon Project team participated in the 27th Annual AIDS Walk Los Angeles. The 10km walkathon benefited the AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) and over two dozen other local AIDS service organizations. Over the past 26 years, AIDS Walk LA has provided for life-sustaining food, medical and dental [...]

M&M Networking Global Marketers recently highlighted the expansion to our EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) team. We are happy to announce that we recently on boarded several new hires in response

We’re pleased to announce the release of the first stable version of our AMQP PHP binding. We’ve relied heavily on RabbitMQ to handle real-time message passing throughout our infrastructure stack, and have a policy of emitting a message for every individual piece of potentially actionable information while letting listeners zero in on information that they [...]

Tech marketing hyperbole usually conjures up images of limitless freedom. No boundaries! Infinite creativity, fueled by the online collective consciousness, all  at your fingertips! The reality is that even when presented with endless possibilities, people tend to do the same things, in the same places. We gossip, share photos, or watch movies (a century-old medium). [...]

Rubicon’s advertisement management platform, REVV, makes it easy for thousands of our customers to interact with our ad servers. Each of our customers use REVV in their own way, using different tools, accessing different resources, via different interfaces. To accommodate this diverse set of needs, we developed a single access control library (ACL) and accompanying [...]

Most tech blogs focus on solving difficult problems, or learning lessons from the unexpected, like outages. This post, however, is about foresight. Software engineers often don’t have time for foresight—they’re always building the next thing in the Product pipeline that will make more money/time/happiness, leaving little time to pursue forward-thinking endeavors that at first glance [...]

A while back we were lucky enough to stumble onto RabbitMQ, and foolhardy enough to start using it without really knowing how valuable it would be. As it turns out, RabbitMQ has paid off in spades. We couldn’t be happier using it for the vast majority of our inter-process (and inter-team) communication.