Articles
Articles
Long-form pieces on bidder architecture, agentic ad workflows, and where adtech standards are heading.
Jan 2026
Handling Money in Milliseconds: 12 Questions for AdTech Expert Damian Naglak (Appliscale)
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
CTV Infrastructure: Where the Industry Is Heading
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.
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.