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…

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

ESLint-ing a Legacy Codebase

I recently joined a new team in my organization, and upon arrival, realized how much I loved (and wanted to share) my previous developer experience: an application running on the latest version of React, a super fast Webpack build, and an ESLint configuration that kept our code…

From a Newbie to a Command Line Master

OR: how I stopped being afraid of the command line

When I got my first Mac at my first job, I was fascinated by the ease with which my colleague could “do magic” by typing a few characters in the command…

Introducing We::Call, a Ruby Gem for making HTTP calls awesome

Make smarter HTTP calls with We::Call

HTTP calls are simultaneously the easiest thing, and a labyrinth of potential unimaginable, terrible outcomes. Service-oriented…

Infrastructure as code

On June 20th we dodged a bullet. After 810 days of uptime, a network card in one of our EC2 instances started to fail.

Growth Architecture: Supporting Global Expansion

As WeWork expands globally and within its current markets, we revisited how we organize buildings for the added benefit of reflecting marketing and sales driven geographies. We also wanted a way to create geographically based pages for our…