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Articles
Long-form pieces on bidder architecture, agentic ad workflows, and where adtech standards are heading.
Jun 2026
Damian Naglak
Type an audience description into a box and a model turns it into 3,072 numbers. Match two audiences and you compare those numbers. Here is every step in between, with the real figures I measured at each one.
Mar 2026
Maksymilian Wojczuk
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
This article is part of an ongoing series by Appliscale's Head of Engineering, Damian Naglak, exploring the new IAB agentic framework and what these shifts mean for the future of ad tech and cloud infrastructure.
Jan 2026
AdTech is often misunderstood. To the outsider, it’s just pop-ups and tracking cookies. To the insider, it’s one of the most ruthless, high-performance engineering playgrounds on the planet—a place where a 20-millisecond delay costs real money and scale isnt a buzzword, its a survival requirement. W
Dec 2025
Michal Niec
I was at the IAB Tech Lab CTV conference recently, and it reinforced several trends Ive been watching in the Connected TV space. The technical challenges facing this industry are substantial, and the solutions being developed will shape how digital advertising infrastructure works for years to come.
Nov 2025
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
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
Mar 2019
Recently I’ve encountered an interesting problem. As a part of one of our projects we needed to create low latency global data ingestion API. The project is developed on AWS platform, so we decided to use AWS native tool for serverless computing AWS Lambda triggered by AWS API Gateway. Our data ing
Nov 2016
Michal Polcik
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.
