Choosing a (Language) Stack

This post and the experiment was a collaborative effort by Michael Farinacci (Load Testing), Nick Gordon…

Custom Annotations in Android

Before java annotations, program metadata was available through java comments or by javadoc but annotations offers more than that.

Java Annotations are introduced in Java 1.5 and now they are heavily used in Java frameworks including Android. Java…

Ruby Users: Be Wary of Net::HTTP

We discovered some fairly interesting behaviors in Net::HTTP…

Adventures in static typing: React, Redux, Flow, oh my.

One of the largest single-page apps at WeWork…

Our API Specification Workflow

A year ago we started trying to figure out the best way to not just document HTTP APIs, but to leverage API specifications to avoid duplicating efforts on loads of similar-but-different tasks; maintaining Postman Collections, creating mocks, contract testing, payload…

React Tutorial — Converting Reflux to Redux

There are many great tutorials and boilerplate apps online–linked to in the footer of this post–and even documentation for redux and react itself is fantastic, so for the purposes of this tutorial I’d like to focus on purely how we switched from using…

Caching External API’s in Rails for a Ginormous Speed Boost

The ability to book tours on wework.com is one of our most important sales funnels. We currently use Salesforce as our main manager of tour times and potential leads. Fetching the available tour times from the Salesforce api…

The History of WeWork.com: From Wordpress to John Quincy Adams