DNA and the Masses: The Science and Technology Behind Discovering Who You Really Are

Posted by Ancestry Team on March 12, 2014 in Analytics, Big Data, DNA Tech, Science

Originally published on Wired Innovation Insights, 3-12-14. There is a growing interest among mainstream consumers to learn more about who they are and where they came from. The good news is that DNA tests are no longer reserved for large medical research teams or plot lines in CSI. Now, the popularity of direct-to-consumer (DTC) DNA tests Read More

API Performance Monitor

Posted by on January 15, 2014 in Analytics, CSS/HTML/JavaScript

My team has been tasked with providing a dashboard for some of our product teams that enables them to aggregate various monitoring systems, logs, metrics, and other forensic tools into one place. While provisioning this dashboard, we discovered we needed a tool that could hit an endpoint, run code against the response, record the results, and Read More

A Fast 11 Years at Ancestry.com: Billions of Historic Records, Millions of Customers and A Boat-Load of Code Later

Posted by Ancestry Team on June 3, 2013 in Analytics, Big Data, Inside our Offices, Machine Learning

I joined Ancestry.com as a developer in June 2002 – exactly 11 years ago – just as Ancestry.com was inventing the family tree technology that differentiates us today. The last 11 years have flown by as our team innovates against the constant challenge of improving our unique and dedicated community’s experience. Looking back over that Read More