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Your Code Coverage is Bad and You Should Feel Bad! Aug 20, 2014.
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Stager: Staging Environments on Autopilot // Localytics Engineering Blog
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October 28, 2014. Stager: Staging Environments on Autopilot. At Localytics we take our code live early and often. It helps us to test features that are in development, and communicate progress throughout the company. We do this to work out in the open, catch issues and deviations as quickly as possible, and just to feel more connected to the end results of our work. Easy deployment is a good thing. Stager is solving a problem for us that is not unique to Localytics, so we decided early on that we would o...
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Six Recipes for Software Managers. Sep 23, 2016. Jun 17, 2014. On the Road to Continuous Delivery. May 14, 2014.
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Your Code Coverage is Bad and You Should Feel Bad! // Localytics Engineering Blog
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August 20, 2014. Your Code Coverage is Bad and You Should Feel Bad! Localytics is open-sourcing Shamer. A service which provides gamified code coverage and automatic Github integration while allowing you to question your sense of self-worth as a developer. Check out the project on Github. And read on for the story of its inception: how Shamer transitioned from a simple what if to a valued part of our engineering culture. It all started fairly innocuously. Check that you have push permission for the repo.
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Onboarding Engineers // Localytics Engineering Blog
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June 17, 2014. An effective onboarding process is important for productivity and morale. For engineers, this process begins when the candidate accepts the job offer and ends when their code is first used by your customers. Onboarding can be broken down to two phases: the time before the first day and the time to the first production deploy. Hiring managers should make sure both phases are executed as efficiently as possible. Before the First Day. Even before the first day in the office, employees should ...
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Spark, Whistling Past the Data Platform Graveyard // Localytics Engineering Blog
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January 28, 2015. Spark, Whistling Past the Data Platform Graveyard. We are in the Golden Age of Data. For those of us on the front-lines, it doesn’t feel that way. Every step forward this technology takes, the need for deeper analytics takes two. We're constantly catching up. Let's take a look at the needs (and innovative responses) that brought us to where we are today. Before 2006: ETL, the Data Warehouse, and OLAP Cubes. An OLAP cube is a multidimensional database that is optimized for data warehouse...
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I'm a principal software engineer at Localytics specializing in all things JavaScript. I'm obsessed with enabling engineers to go faster, code quality and challenging software engineering norms. Faster SASS builds with Webpack. Nov 23, 2015. Tips and Tricks for debugging unfamiliar AngularJS code. Aug 10, 2015. Apr 30, 2015.
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Co-founder / Chief Software Architect of Localytics. Presto for the Enterprise - Video from the Boston Hadoop User Group. Aug 13, 2015. AWS Lambda and Event-Driven Computing: The Next Big Thing for Data Pipelines. Nov 25, 2014. Optimizing MongoDB: Lessons Learned at Localytics. Jun 27, 2011.
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A Year on Angular.js on Rails: A Retrospective // Localytics Engineering Blog
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January 27, 2014. A Year on Angular.js on Rails: A Retrospective. It's been almost a year since we started using AngularJS in production here at Localytics. We began by experimenting with a small piece of our site. And were so happy with it that we. Rewrote our entire analytics dashboard product. Mdash; overhauling nearly four years' worth of legacy production code — in Angular. So we thought we'd share some of the practices and tricks we've come up with at Localytics to get Angular running on Rails.
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Presto for the Enterprise - Video from Boston Hadoop User Group // Localytics Engineering Blog
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August 13, 2015. Presto for the Enterprise - Video from the Boston Hadoop User Group. Last month, Localytics hosted the Boston Hadoop User Group. For an evening presentation titled. Presto for the Enterprise. Is an open source, distributed SQL query engine for running queries on top of multiple data sources. Matt Fuller. From Teradata gave the audience a tour of Presto and Teradata's contributions to its development. We captured a video of the presentation. And Matt posted the slide deck.
