We consider ourselves to be fortunate and believe in paying it forward to those in need, our San Francisco and New York offices did just that in their local communities this month. Our SF team spent time at Family House which serves as a home away from home for families of children with cancer and [...]

In the work environment, there is certainly no substitute for face to face interaction. To help decrease the volume of internal e-mails and increase familiarity amongst our team, each month we host Real Time Talking get-togethers across the organization. Our monthly social hour provides an opportunity for us to step away from our workstations and [...]

New York’s Hartley House was first introduced to Rubicon Project during our 1% of profits to charity initiative [more details can be found here]. Hartley House, whose programs include educational, creative, recreational, civic and social services, was the charity of choice of several of our team members to receive a financial donation on behalf of [...]

Recently Rubicon kicked off a 90 day company-wide commitment to tackling personal health & fitness goals. With everyone’s hectic schedules at play, it can be difficult to fit in a trip to the gym or make time to eat a health conscious meal. In an effort to empower our team members to make their health [...]

Since Rubicon Project was founded in May 2007, community and philanthropy have been fully ingrained into the fabric of our company. In addition to revolutionizing the automation of advertising, our founders set a policy of donating 1% of our profits to charity. In 2012 we updated this policy to distribute that donation by contributing ½ [...]

Malware-infected ads, or “malvertising”, are rare. But they do exist, and an unchecked attack can be quite damaging. So 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, from more than a dozen countries (and growing) around the globe, the Rubicon Project’s automated brand protection systems scan ads to look for any signs of unexpected behavior—behavior [...]

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 [...]