Cerner places a high value on talent development programs offering students the experience to build practical and tangible skills for the modern work environment. As part of this focus, Cerner supports FIRST Robotics, a competition providing experience in software engineering, where students learn t...

Most technical problems are like games. All of them have a way to win and all of them have rules; the easiest way to ensure you always win is to learn the rules inside and out, and more importantly what the rules don’t cover! Paying attention to what the rules don’t cover is what leads to out of the...

Cerner’s journey with Ruby started in the summer of 2009. We selected Ruby on Rails for rapid development of the Cerner Store to prepare for release at the Cerner Health Conference that year. In three months, with three engineers and a designer, we wrote and released the first version of an e-commer...

Developers often take for granted the level of flexibility and customization that is available within the software they use every day. Consumers of imaging software have traditionally been completely confined to interpret exams a specific way, and frequently in ways that are unintuitive. Every physi...

Introduction Tycho is a build tool for integration between PDE and Maven. Cerner has a long history of working with Eclipse RCP but P2 integration is something of a more recent phenomenon. This post is going to talk about how Cerner is using Tycho, what prompted our transition to Tycho and how we ac...

From MapReduce to realtime This post covers much of the Near-Realtime Processing Over HBase talk I’m giving at ApacheCon NA 2013 in blog form. It also draws from the Hadoop, HBase, and Healthcare talk from StrataConf/Hadoop World 2012. The first significant use of Hadoop at Cerner came in building s...

In the dark ages of development, great software meant packing in the functionality. People began doing more and more with their software. Updates meant newer and more exciting functionality. Sounds great, right? Of course it does, but something went horribly wrong. Slowly we became inundated with cl...

Hello and welcome to a public face for Cerner Engineering, by Cerner Engineering associates, to talk about engineering, technology, and all of the other awesome things we do. Cerner has been recognized as a visionary company, transforming the delivery of healthcare around the world. Improving the he...

Most developers know this pattern well: we design a set of schemas to represent our data, and then work with that data via a query language. This works great in most cases, but becomes a challenge as data sets grow to an arbitrary size and complexity. Data sets can become too large to query and upda...

Transforming Healthcare We love solving the hard problems that no one else wants to tackle. We embrace polyglot programming, distributed systems, and open source. We also know that it's important to allow engineers to take a step back and try new things. That's why we host periodic hackathons, meetu...

Cerner Open Source At Cerner, we ❤ open source. Open source software is an integral part of our software and is crucial to running and operating our applications and services globally. Our engineers contribute to open source projects and Cerner is proud to provide financial support to organizations ...

Tech Talks Cerner Tech Talks brings in great speakers for talks that would be of interest to engineers at Cerner. These talks are held periodically and vary widely in their content. Check out this playlist for all of our current and past talks. To see any other videos shared by Cerner Engineering, c...

At Cerner, we use the latest technologies to transform healthcare. We are the engineers and designers that focus on making you, your family, and friends healthy and happy. We love solving the hard problems that no one else wants to tackle. We embrace polyglot programming, distributed systems, and op...