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LINE Android & iOS Engineer Workshop and Hackathon 2019
Aldo Kelvianto Wachyudi2019-11-27
Aldo is an Android engineer at LINE
Hello everyone, I'm Aldo, an Android developer at LINE. In this article, I'm going to share my experience in attending LINE Developer Workshop and Hackathon 2019. The aim of the event was in "closing the distance" between LINERs; since for the most part, we usually only communicate through online platforms. Android and iOS developers from Japan, Vietnam, Korea, Indonesia, and Taiwan participated in the hackathon, workshop, and various ice-breaking games. I looked forward to attending this even
LINE at COSCUP 2019
Claire Wang2019-10-28
LINE Taiwan Technical Writer
What is COSCUP COSCUP is one of the biggest open source conferences around Asia. It is an annual conference that has been held by the open source community since 2006 and acted as the major advocate of the free open-source software movement (FOSSM) in Taiwan. COSCUP is composed of talks, sponsor and community booths, and BoF (Birds of a Feather) meetings, targeting to serve as a platform to connect open source developers, users, and promoters to break away from the common m
UIT Global Workshop 2019
Hyeseong Oh2019-10-21
Developing various services as a front-end engineer at LINE
LINE offers various services in the global scene, ranging from its famous instant messaging, content delivery (e.g., news, music, and video), and financial services (e.g., LINE Pay and personal finance app). The UIT team at LINE is responsible for the web front-end technology of these services, working hard across different time zones from Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and Taiwan. Once in a year, UIT team LINERs across the globe gather together for the UIT Global Workshop. This year's event
NAVER x LINE AI RUSH 2019 - My Experience of the Final Round
Evan Lin2019-10-10
LINE Taiwan Technology Evangelist
At the LINE DEVELOPER DAY 2018 conference held in Tokyo, LINE Corporation CTO Park Euivin announced "Next LINE" as LINE's vision in the development of technology. In this vision, AI (Artificial Intelligence), blockchain, and fintech would play a pivotal role. "Connect" and "Mutually Beneficial Ecosystem" were touted as significant keywords that would lead the organization to achieve the value of "Next LINE," continuing to evolve LINE services. To help promote AI development and
- Machine Learning
Verda at CloudNative/OpenStack Days 2019 (2/2)
Bhor Dinesh2019-10-02
Dinesh is an Infrastructure Engineer as a member of Private Cloud Platform team which is in charge of developing/operating Managed Kubernetes Service and OpenStack Cluster on a large scale.
This blog post is the second part that continues from Verda at CloudNative/OpenStack Days 2019 (1/2). In the previous post we took a look at the overall ecosystem of Verda. In this post I will explain our network side challenges and how we optimized and improved Verda to overcome those challenges. LINE's Verda Network designs: Lets go through the 3 transitions of LINE data center networks. L2-based network backed with upstream solution using Linux bridge L3-only flat network: Develop
- Cloud
Verda at CloudNative/OpenStack Days 2019 (1/2)
Bhor Dinesh2019-10-02
Dinesh is an Infrastructure Engineer as a member of Private Cloud Platform team which is in charge of developing/operating Managed Kubernetes Service and OpenStack Cluster on a large scale.
Ever wondered what LINE uses internally for infrastructure management? If yes, then you came to the right blog post.Recently at CloudNative/OpenStack Days Tokyo, LINE presented on its OpenStack cloud project called Verda. This article is going to be a series of two blog posts which provide a summary of the entire Verda ecosystem: Verda at CloudNative/OpenStack Days 2019 (1/2) → Bird's eye view of Verda Verda at CloudNative/OpenStack Days 20
- Cloud
LINE's Web-based services and technology. Isn't LINE an app developer?
허석2019-09-30
I'm a web developer loves who the universe. Want to wake up a sleeping Opportunity(Mars Rover).
Hello to all! I'm Seok Heo, a web service developer at LINE. I'd like to introduce you to LINE's various web-based services and their architecture, technology stack, and development methodologies in this post. To simplify things, I've classified LINE's web-based services into web services, hybrid web apps, messenger, and library/platform. Overview of each service category Web service LINE offers LINE Timeline Web as a web service. LINE Timeline Web LINE Timeline Web is a social service whe
- Web Development
LINE Taiwan Security Meetup – BECKS #3
Claire Wang2019-09-23
LINE Taiwan Technical Writer
Information security has always been one of the key focuses of LINE. LINE has always strove to actively promote various security enhancement strategies over the years. As a part of our ongoing effort towards information security, LINE information security engineers hold a meetup known as BECKS (a portmanteau of beer and hacks) in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. We invite security professionals around the globe to participate in the exchange. The last BECKS meetup in Taipei was kicked off by Beis
The Repetitions Eliminator R Library "mmetrics"
Yanjin Li2019-09-10
Yanjin is a data scientist at LINE Corp, working on big data projects.
Have you ever faced a situation where you need to compute the same metrics using similar or even the same computation formulas over and over again? How do you usually handle those repetitive tasks? As many engineers in our field of work know, dplyr is one of the most cool and efficient data wrangling grammars that provide us with tons of tangible solutions to most of our day-to-day data manipulation challenges. In this post we would like to introduce you to a package called
App Design and Development Conference: An iOS Developer's Impression
Ray Tsaihong2019-08-14
Ray is an iOS developer at LINE
A great app needs both developers and designers working together, but we often have different tools and care about different aspects of the product. It can sometimes be difficult to coordinate our work, but at LINE we always try new ways to work more effectively. For instance, I've trained designers on our team on how to submit pull requests and how to work with Interface Builder in Xcode, so they could directly participate in building our app UI. I'm always curious to learn what problems other