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Why You Should Be Building Bots for SNS Services
JoseLuis Takahashi2017-07-06
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.
Hi, I'm Jose Luis from LINE Development Center 1, a lead technical consultant and a product manager at LINE. On May 18th, I participated in one of the Engage sessions at The Next Web conference in Amsterdam as an invited speaker. I'd like to share about the Engage session and briefly cover the event itself, but first, I would like to express my gratitude to The Next Web for the invitation. Opening The opening event was fantastic. It was filled with music and visual effects, which most IT events
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WWDC17 Recap
Taejeong Lee, Hyuk Hur2017-07-05
Taejeong Lee is a LINE iOS developer and her favorite character is Brown. Hyuk Hur is also a LINE iOS developer. He is a lucky guy, he attended WWDC for 3 years in a row.
Introduction Hello, we are Taejeong Lee and Hyuk Heo, both iOS app developers at LINE. We had an opportunity to attend WWDC17 held at the San Jose Convention Center, from June 5th to June 9th. WWDC is an event for developers held by Apple every June in California. The event starts with the CEO's keynote speech and is followed by 100 sessions and 200 labs in the course of 5 days, in which attendees can experience Apple’s latest software and technology. WWDC has been held in San Francisco i
- Event Report
- iOS
Elastic{ON} 2017 Recap
Jaejin Lee2017-06-20
Jaejin Lee is a software engineer developing a massive monitoring system at LINE. He has an eye for cute stuff around him.
I am a software engineer at LINE and am in charge of developing a monitoring system. I am quite talented at catching cute stuff around me. Thanks to LINE, I was able to attend Elastic{ON} 2017. LINE encourages and supports LINE developers to attend conferences. On this post, I'd like to share my visit to Elastic{ON} 2017 along with some pictures and brief summaries of each session I attended. Introducing Elastic{ON} 2017 On Site Elastic{ON} 2017 was held at Pier 48 in San Francisco, U.S.A from M
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- Elasticsearch
Google I/O 2017 Recap
Seungwon Lee2017-06-14
Seungwon Lee and Hyukjae Jang both develop LINE for Android. Hyukjae is also in charge of developing new features by studying user behaviors on the LINE app.
Introduction Hello, my name is Seungwon Lee, I work at LINE as an Android developer. This post is about our visit to Google I/O 2017 held in Mountain View, USA from May 17th to 19th. Google I/O, started in 2008, is an annual developer-oriented conference. Along with Apple's WWDC, Google I/O is by far one of the largest events for software developers worldwide. The "I"and "O"in the conference name stand for "Input and Output" and also for "Innovation in the Open". This conference is renowned for
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Improving LINE Timeline performance on iOS through implementation of a view model
Keonhong Lee2017-05-29
Keonhong has participated in the development of Keep for both Android and iOS. He is currently on the Timeline for iOS development team.
Introductions Hello, my name is Keonhong Lee and I'm in charge of development for Timeline on iOS. In this blog post, I'd like to talk about how we improved performance of Timeline on iOS, after it had become heavy, slow, and difficult to manage from the many added features and history over time. Background First, some background on why we started on this path. Timeline is a place where you and your friends can share all of your social activities. Theoretically, a post uploaded to Timeline can b
- iOS
Using BitBar to monitor Prometheus alerts
Paul Traylor2017-04-27
Currently working on making server monitoring and alerting easier for developers to use.
Taking advantage of the menu bar on macOSI'm Paul Traylor from LINE Fukuoka's development team. Since starting at LINE, my primary responsibility has been working with Prometheus and Grafana to update our internal server monitoring system into something that is easier to use. The end goal is to make it possible for developers to easily set their own alerts. Since I'm in charge of monitoring the monitoring system, I often have to look at many different charts and check servers from several differ
LINE Developer Meetup in Fukuoka #17: Firsthand Report
oshiro2017-04-20
LINE Engineer
Hi, I’m Oshiro on LINE Fukuoka’s Data Analysis Team, and I’ll be giving you a firsthand report on the “LINE Developer Meetup in Fukuoka #17” that took place here in Fukuoka on February 23. Sessions 1. Construct a Crawling Environment That Supports Data Analysis From the Comfort of Your Own Home! - Yuta Hongo This presentation was given by Hongo, a data engineer here at LINE Fukuoka. As data collection is a problem that we inevitably run into when starting to do dat
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- LINE Fukuoka
LINE Group Call - Conference calls with up to 200 people
Jungjun Park2017-02-21
I am in charge of VoIP server development at LINE.
Hello, my name is Park Jungjun and I am currently developing the LINE Group Call feature. One of LINE's goals in development is Closing the Distance. To make this come true, LINE develops many different conversation services. On this LINE Engineering Blog post, I would like to introduce you to the features and technologies of one of our conversation services, LINE Group Call. LINE Group Call - Make voice calls with up to 200 people simultaneously LINE Group Call lets users have conference calls
- VoIP
LINE Taiwan TechPulse 2016 Recap
Shawn Tsai2017-02-20
He is an engineer at LINE Taiwan, in charge of chatbot application development and LINE Platform technical consulting.
This is Shawn Tsai from LINE Taiwan. In its goal to become a Smart Portal for users, LINE has been opening up more features of its LINE Platform to developers to spur on the development of innovative chatbot applications. On the heels of the successful LINE Developer Day events held in Japan, we held an event in Taiwan called "LINE Taiwan TechPulse" on December 26, 2016. We had a good turnout of more than 600 attendees to this event which included many of our local partners as well as many talen
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LINE Engineering and the future of the LINE Engineering Blog
Yusuke Kushii2017-02-09
In charge of actively and creatively promoting the technologies of LINE both in and out of the company. Also in charge of operations of LINE Developer Day 2016.
Hello, Kushii here.In this blog post, I'd like to talk about the unveiling of the LINE Engineering site and what it means for the future of the LINE Engineers' Blog.The LINE Engineering site is a constantly updated hub for everything from LINE development culture, to open-source projects, job openings, and development documentation straight from the LINE developers site. The site is available in English, Japanese, and Korean. Support for Traditional Chinese is coming soon.Regarding our blog, we
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