Postmortem on Last Week’s Outages

On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, March 6th-8th, 2018, Clever logins failed for all customers: 1h…

Wag: A Go Web API Generator

This story begins someplace familiar to many startups: our monolithic API had become unwieldy, and we wanted to transition towards a microservice architecture. And, like other young, scrappy startups, we couldn’t afford to freeze development while we re-architected the entire…

Defining Clever’s Engineering Culture

At Clever, we chose early on to deliberately define the key principles we wanted our culture…

Securing Saved-password Applications

The password is both a ubiquitous and brittle security mechanism. With the emergence of new security trends like post-quantum cryptography and IoT-botnet attacks, it’s easy to overlook attacks that exploit guessable, reused, or coerced passwords. But the…

Evolving Systems for New Products

When building systems for new products, there’s a delicate balance between writing code that works…

How Clever grows inclusivity for women in engineering