Articles
Articles
Long-form pieces on bidder architecture, agentic ad workflows, and where adtech standards are heading.
Mar 2026
Maksymilian Wojczuk
The Architect’s Veto: Why "Just Building It" is Rarely Enough
Generic software development is often described as a game of execution. You get a requirement, you write the code, you pass the tests, and you deploy. In the era of high-speed delivery and AI-assisted coding, we have become remarkably good at the building part of the process. But as the complexity o
Nov 2025
Damian Naglak
AI-Powered Deal Troubleshooting
Deal troubleshooting in programmatic advertising is notoriously painful. Weve all watched countless AdOps engineers spend hours manually checking APIs, cross-referencing databases, and hunting through metrics just to figure out why a single deal isnt bidding. At Appliscale, we’re using our expertise
Oct 2025
AWS RTB Fabric: The Hidden Complexity of Adtech Infrastructure and Why This Changes Everything
Amazon Web Services recently launched RTB Fabric, a purpose-built infrastructure service for real-time bidding workloads. This isnt just another cloud service – its AWS putting a managed network layer directly between buyers and sellers in the programmatic advertising ecosystem. ❕What makes this ann
Nov 2016
Michal Polcik
Processing Billions of impression with FP – Wojtek @ SpreadIT conf
Wojtek Gawronski presented at the recent SpreadIT conference. His talk on functional programming and its usage in a high transaction RTB exchange thats processes billions of requests per day was well received, you can catch it here.