Databases
The first database powering Bitly
What is AWS SimpleDB
Used to check if URLs are blocked
What is a safebrowing hash
Bitly’s first CEO
Who is John Borthwick
What is Mysql
Bitlys character representation of dates in GUIDs
The QR Code mascot
Who is Cody
Bitly built asynchronous applications in this language before it was popular
What is python
This google database that now powers parts of Chrome once powered a "bitly links of your friends" feature.
What is LevelDB
This C library is known for making memcached scalable
What is libevent
A former employee spoke about this language saying "The segfaults are there to clear the memory leaks"
What is C
Bitly acquired this RSS feed publisher and it's UK employee in 2011
What is Twitterfeed
What is Memcached
Used to convert an integer to an ascii string
What is base 62
This VP of Product went on to lead product at Buffer and is now CEO of Rebrandly
Who is Maria Thomas
Adopted before it hit version 1.0
What is Go
The number of different NY offices
What is 5
This database provided business analytics prior to BigQuery
What is AWS Redshift
This algorithim selected the hash for new Bitly links until 2012
What is the Jenkins hash function (designed by Bob Jenkins)
I designed the currently Bitly pufferfish and the original Octocat logo
Who is Simon Oxley
A three letter language that created all new Bitly links from 2009 through 2022
The number of investment rounds Bitly did
What is 3 rounds of funding