Brian KirkbyinZappos EngineeringElastic Beanstalk vs APIG part 2: HTTP vs HTTPSIn part 1 of this showdown, I discussed how we, at Zappos, replicated a key website service to different AWS regions for performance…Feb 8, 2016Feb 8, 2016
Brian KirkbyinZappos EngineeringElastic Beanstalk vs APIG, Part 1 in an AWS ShowdownWe recently had our first customer-facing Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure roll out for the main production websites here at…Jan 12, 20161Jan 12, 20161
Brian KirkbyinZappos EngineeringBoidsThe Zappos engineering blog design started with a birdwatching video.Nov 6, 2015Nov 6, 2015
Brian KirkbyinZappos EngineeringA Lean Approach to Creating an APILast year I picked up a project that needed some extra functionality. The project was to take a small portion of our product data, manually…Oct 20, 2015Oct 20, 2015
Brian KirkbyinZappos EngineeringCoding Club: Genetic AlgorithmsThe robot problem discussed in this challenge is found in the book Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell. It’s also included in her…Aug 27, 2015Aug 27, 2015
Brian KirkbyinZappos EngineeringCoding Club: FractalsEvery two weeks a group of software engineers here at Zappos meet over pizza and wings and brush up on computer science topics that tend to…Jul 17, 2015Jul 17, 2015