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LINE Things (IoT platform) at IFA, Europe's largest consumer electronics exhibit
JoseLuis Takahashi2018-11-15
JoseLuis works as a consultant and product manager for LINE Platform products. His goal is to provide new features and innovation to LINE Platform with latest technologies.
Hello, this is Jose from the Developer Product department. I'd like to share my visit to the IFA held in Berlin from August 31 to September 5. Introducing IFA IFA, Internationale Funkausstellung, is the largest consumer electronics exhibition in Europe, held annually around September in Berlin, which started off as a global exhibition on broadcasting technology. In the midst of its long history, even Einstein gave a speech at IFA in 1930. This year, LINE set up a booth
- Event Report
- IoT
Redis Lua script for atomic operations and cache stampede
Kagaya Hokuto2018-11-15
2016年入社。LINE GAME プラットフォームのチームにおいてサーバサイドの開発に従事。
Hello, this is Kagaya, a member of the LINE GAME Platform development team. It's nice to be back after writing a post on Lazybones (Japanese post), in 2016. Redis and LINE GAME Platform The LINE GAME Platform uses Redis — in-memory no SQL database — for its main database, mainly for cache. For instance, we are using it for caching the users' social data such as profile and friend list1, for those who authenticate themselves with a LINE account or Facebook account. We run
- Redis
- Lua scripting
LINE engineer wins third place in the biggest global IT contest in the world, Imagine Cup 2018
Kunihiko Sato2018-11-12
I am a software engineer working on the LINE AD Platform.
Hello you all, this is Kunihiko Sato, a member of the LINE AD Platform. Imagine Cup, an IT conference organized by Microsoft was held in Seattle from July 23–25 2018, which I attended as a representative of Japan. I'd like to share my experience there and story on winning third place. Imagine Cup is open to students, and for this year's event, anyone who was a student even for a single day between September 2018 to July 2017 was qualified to enter. Since I graduated from my post
- Imagine Cup
Effective code review
Bryan Liu2018-10-25
Bryan is an automation engineer as part of QA and SRE team in LINE Taiwan.
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Introducing Flex Message, a new message type for LINE Messaging API
Kazuki Nakajima2018-10-23
LINE Engineer
A new type of message has been added to the LINE Messaging API, Flex Message. We've been using a template-typed message in which you could place plain text, stickers, images, media types like videos, buttons and URLs. This type is quite useful for where the user had to select an option from available options, but there were restrictions such as the maximum number of buttons allowed, which is 4, for the button template, or the order in which you had to arrange the elements for a layout — titl
- LINE Messaging API
Interview with Major Cineplex
Jirawatee2018-10-15
I am a technology evangelist at LINE.
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Interview with MEB
Jirawatee2018-10-15
I am a technology evangelist at LINE.
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Interview with Double A
Jirawatee2018-10-14
I am a technology evangelist at LINE.
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Write you a webpack for great good
Jun2018-10-04
I am a front-end developer at LINE. I'm interested in programming languages.
em {font-style: italic;} Module bundlers have become quite popular in the world of JavaScript. Today, I'd like us to briefly see the concept of it, get into how it really works, and I'll share the story of making a module bundler myself. What is a module bundler? Module systems structure a large-scale code base into units of modules. For long, there has been no module system for JavaScript, but ever since Node.js started to use a module system called CommonJS from 2009, modular programming b
- JavaScript
Write the Docs Prague 2018 Recap
Jeongil Kang2018-10-04
I am a technical writer in charge of writing and managing the LINE documentation.
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- Technical Writing