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Category: Engineering

(Remote) Hackathon 2020: Upwards and Onwards

This year marked Index Exchange’s fifth annual Hackathon. Needless to say, Hackathon 2020 was notably different from the first four. Hackathons create an environment where creative ideas and company culture can really flourish. My favourite part has always been the raw and uncapped energy that everyone participating undoubtedly feels. Sitting around boxes of pizza at ...continue reading

30 Dec

Engineering IX Perspectives

An Introduction to Machine Learning – Our Supply Traffic Filter

An Introduction to Machine Learning – Our Supply Traffic Filter With self-driving cars, voice-controlled personal assistants, and recommendation engines built into your favourite streaming services, it seems like we are only at the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Machine Learning (ML). For many of us, it is increasingly governing much of how ...continue reading

06 Aug

Engineering

Remote Working: An Engineering Perspective

At Index Exchange, we’re in the very fortunate position that when COVID-19 necessitated all of our employees to work remotely, we were able to do so without significant disruption. This includes our engineering team, whose 200+ employee workforce is spread across our three Canadian offices in Toronto, Montreal, and Kitchener-Waterloo. As natural innovators, we’ve not only ...continue reading

29 Jun

Engineering IX Perspectives

Battening Down the Hatches – How We Optimised Our Data Pipeline in a Pandemic-Induced Storm

Just a couple of months ago, when most of the world was mandated to work from home where possible and avoid unnecessary travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Index Exchange’s data pipeline experienced a surge of traffic. The High Tide of Data Volume As a large proportion of the global population remained inside, people were ...continue reading

15 May

Engineering IX Perspectives

Using Metrics to Improve Project Quality

Any agile workplace (IX Engineering included) can and should regularly make a conscious effort to strive for improvement, as constant advancement is key to having an agile mindset – a practice that metrics can both help and hinder. The right metrics can showcase and localize problems ripe for improvement or reassure teams their work is ...continue reading

13 Mar

Engineering IX Perspectives

A technical perspective from All Hands

Earlier this month, our global IX team descended upon the city we call home – Toronto – for our annual employee conference. We enjoyed two days of inspiring on-stage content, gave back to the community by building kits for local charities in partnership with Kits for a Cause and attended a number of team bonding ...continue reading

18 Dec

Engineering

The Technology that Powers the Biggest Online Shopping Event of the Year

Each year, Cyber Monday reaffirms its title as the top e-commerce event in North America, with advertisers launching special campaigns and paying top advertising dollars to attract customers. Q4 pushes the limits of our Ad Serving platform, campaign registration pipeline and data processing systems, as IX typically experiences at least a 10% increase in daily ...continue reading

26 Nov

Engineering

Tour IX’s Amsterdam & Frankfurt Data Centers

As an engineering-first company, we take security very seriously. Since knowing where our technology lives is just as important as the tech our engineers build, we invited a small group of our European partners to step inside two of our data centers to experience our tech like never before. Step inside our Amsterdam data center, ...continue reading

03 Jul

Engineering

A Technical Perspective from IX Open

If you create software solutions for healthcare, is your company a healthcare company or an engineering company? While there’s nothing that says you need to choose, often a company adopts an identity that permeates throughout its culture. Some folks in the world of banking have struggled for years to find a new identity in the digital ...continue reading

17 May

Engineering

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