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Tech Talks: C++ in the 21st Century
BitTorrent Tech Talks are one-hour sessions dedicated to the stuff that keeps us busy / keeps us up at night / keeps us coding. From time to time, we post them here. Because sharing. In this edition of Tech Talks: BitTorrent’s Chief Architect Arvid Norberg gives an overview of a few of the gems of…

Behind-the-Scenes of BitTorrent’s Palooza
February’s Palooza brought out new features and new ideas with a mobile slant. Every two months, we hold an internal hackathon called a Palooza. Paloozas are at the heart of BitTorrent’s bottom-up innovation. It’s where BitTorrent Sync and BitTorrent Bundle got their start. We dedicate two full days and 20% time leading up to the…

The BitTorrent Engineering Team: Building Faster Releases
3.4 is an exciting release for the uTorrent team. 3.4 is the first version to include a major change in the way that uTorrent works. Want all the technical details? Read on or check out the original post on our Engineering Blog.

Tech Talks: Writing High-Performance Software
Originally posted on our engineering blog. BitTorrent Tech Talks are one-hour sessions dedicated to the stuff that keeps us busy / keeps us up at night / keeps us coding. From time to time, we post them here. Because sharing. In this edition of Tech Talks: BitTorrent’s Chief Architect Arvid Norberg describes how modern computers…

BitTorrent Tech Talks: Young Guru & the Era of the Engineer
The legendary sound engineer and The Sound of New York discusses creative engineering at BitTorrent. Music is navigation. It tells us where we are. It reminds us where we’re from. It anchors us to a moment. And it propels us forward. Change is an audible thing. And if you’re listening – which is one of…
Update on BitTorrent Chat
BitTorrent was founded on a few simple core principles. Uphold user privacy, and user control. Keep the web free, open, and accessible to all. This is what keeps us up at night. And this is what keeps us coding. Every two months, we dedicate two days to all-company hackathons (Paloozas, we call them). It’s free…

The BitTorrent Interview: Bertrand Chazot
BitTorrent is a company made up of inventors, engineers, scientists, designers; makers and breakers of technology. The BitTorrent Interview is an introduction to the people of peer-to-peer: notes from the edge of distributed technology, and a few words from the team we’re lucky enough to call our own. In this week’s edition: Bertrand Chazot, Android…

BitTorrent Palooza Report: Hacktober, 2013
For the last few years, we’ve made a point of setting aside two working days every few months for internal hackathons, where anyone within the company can form a team to work on and present an new idea for a product or feature. We call these informal hackathons “Paloozas”. Some of our best ideas and…