Nowadays, user interface design is a costly process that requires effort from a lot of people, developers, designers, testers, product managers and so on. Companies usually create interfaces consisting of many independent components that can be reused. At the same time, designers create a design project that describes separately every…

Введение В наши дни разработка интерфейса является достаточно затратным процессом который требует усилий от множества людей, разработчиков, дизайнеров, тестировщиков продукт менеджеров и так далее. Компании все чаще прибегают к написанию интерфейса состоящего из множества независимых компонентов, которые могут быть использованы повторно. В то время как дизайнеры создают дизайн проект, который описывает…

As companies, products and teams evolve so do development practices. At Conductor we frequently identify areas for opportunity when working on Searchlight. Over the years we have made leaps and bounds in the way we develop, test and deliver high quality software to our customers. Rewind back to 2015 —…

Today, we’re open sourcing an in-house Java 8 stream utility library, which can aggregate, merge, or join streams in a memory efficient way. To skip right to the code, check out the github repo. Here at Conductor, we build Searchlight, a content intelligence platform that helps users gain insights from…

Cassandra’s distributed architecture enables a high write throughput compared to other NoSQL and SQL database systems. Most benchmarks focus on incremental writes, but data can also be efficiently ingested by Cassandra in bulk. …

Data compression provides a means by which a system can improve I/O performance by shrinking the data being transmitted between stores and processes. …

Some organizations do not proceed with a project until they have an agreed-upon test plan. Some organizations write them along the way. And some organizations never get around to thinking about them at all. To start, let’s talk about what I picture when I say “Test Plan”: A handshake, a…

This year, Conductor adopted a new method of showcasing engineering accomplishments that promotes interdepartmental communication. Twice a month, we engineers put on our orange t-shirts, and go to the Conductor Café to speak about what our team has worked on most recently. Engineers take this opportunity to learn what other…

So you’ve just completed development of your first JavaScript library, and you think it could help the rest of the world. You’ve heard people discuss the “open source movement” or “ GitHub profiles,” but you’re still a novice at this whole sharing software thing. Maybe you’re still in school and…