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A Guide on the useEffect React Hook
A Guide on the useEffect React Hook
While writing React code you will come across numerous React hooks. One of the most common React hooks is useEffect. The useEffect hook is…
Bailey Baker
May 6
Women at Beam spotlight: Dicko Sow
Women at Beam spotlight: Dicko Sow
In honor of Women’s History Month, the Ladies at Beam Employee Resource Group will be shining the light on a few of our amazing Beamers…
Chandu Tennety
Mar 14, 2023
Optimizing Monorepo Test Suites Through Sharding
Optimizing Monorepo Test Suites Through Sharding
How we build things.
Joel Narwold
Oct 21, 2022
Array Matchers in RSpec
Array Matchers in RSpec
Know your matchers.
Bailey Baker
Sep 19, 2022
Using the Result pattern with Rails services
Using the Result pattern with Rails services
You should be writing services
Chandu Tennety
Aug 15, 2022
State of Engineering @ Beam
State of Engineering @ Beam
Thinking about applying for an engineering role at Beam? This might help you get a glimpse of how we work!
Alejandro Vélez-Calderón
Jul 11, 2022
Meet a Beamer — Beth Murdoch, Product Manager
Meet a Beamer — Beth Murdoch, Product Manager
Get to know the background, work, and life of a Beamer. This time we chat with Product Manager, Beth
Alejandro Vélez-Calderón
Jun 24, 2022
Testing forms for accessibility using React Testing Library
Testing forms for accessibility using React Testing Library
Examples and best practices
Katie Radford
May 23, 2022
Meet a Beamer, Keith Evans, Senior Product Designer
Meet a Beamer, Keith Evans, Senior Product Designer
Get to know the background, work, and life of a Beamer. This time we chat with Senior Product Designer Keith.
Alejandro Vélez-Calderón
Apr 21, 2022
Buildkite event driven agents on AWS and Kubernetes
Buildkite event driven agents on AWS and Kubernetes
The SRE team refreshes our Buildkite agent scheduling archetectyre using AWS EventBridge, SQS and Lambda to deploy agents in Kubernetes.
Michael Vollman
Mar 28, 2022
Meet a Beamer — Jason Amerine Engineering Manager, Platform
Meet a Beamer — Jason Amerine Engineering Manager, Platform
Get to know the background, work, and life of a Beamer. Meet one of our engineering managers Jason!
Alejandro Vélez-Calderón
Feb 28, 2022
Meet a Beamer — Ahmed Ayoub (Product Designer)
Meet a Beamer — Ahmed Ayoub (Product Designer)
Get to know the background, work, and life of a Beam employee. This time we chat with Ahmed!
Alejandro Vélez-Calderón
Dec 1, 2021
Better Habits with Structure.sql
Better Habits with Structure.sql
Good habits to avoid issues with the structure file
Jamie Steines
Aug 17, 2021
RSpec Tips: allow_any_instance_of
RSpec Tips: allow_any_instance_of
And why you should probably think twice before using it.
Alejandro Vélez-Calderón
Jun 2, 2021
From Foreign Language to Programming Languages
From Foreign Language to Programming Languages
How I hacked my career to become a Software Developer and ended up at Beam Dental
Matthew House
Apr 23, 2021
Using kubernetes custom resources to manage our ephemeral environments
Using kubernetes custom resources to manage our ephemeral environments
Ephemeral testing environments using Kubernetes
Peter Hewitt
Mar 26, 2021
Beam Raises $80 Million in Series E Funding to Further Modernize Dental Benefits
Beam Raises $80 Million in Series E Funding to Further Modernize Dental Benefits
Easier, Smarter, Preventive
Alejandro Vélez-Calderón
Mar 11, 2021
An Engineer’s Perspective on Switching from Scrum to Shape Up
An Engineer’s Perspective on Switching from Scrum to Shape Up
No yes. Either hell yeah, or no.
Alejandro Vélez-Calderón
Feb 23, 2021
Why Beam Prefers Take-Home Tests
Why Beam Prefers Take-Home Tests
… and Why Algorithmic and Whiteboard Questions Don’t Work for Us
Jim Kirkbride
Jan 22, 2021
Running ephemeral Buildkite agents on Kubernetes and AWS
Running ephemeral Buildkite agents on Kubernetes and AWS
How the SRE team at Beam Dental revamped our continuous integration system by taking a fresh look at running Buildkite agents on Kubernetes.
Michael Vollman
Dec 10, 2020
What forced us apart has brought us closer
What forced us apart has brought us closer
Amidst a global pandemic and a move to remote-first, Beam’s culture is thriving
Josh Boorn
Oct 2, 2020
Collaborating vs Pairing
Collaborating vs Pairing
Much has been said regarding pair programming but what is the difference between pair programming (pairing) and collaboration?
Matthew Bussa
Sep 4, 2020
Collecting Open Metrics In K8s And Shipping To Datadog
Collecting Open Metrics In K8s And Shipping To Datadog
At Beam, we have a lot of metrics that we collect of which we utilize in pretty standard ways. For instance, we collect CPU and Memory…
Joey Stout
Aug 10, 2020
Writing End-to-End Tests for Bluetooth Applications is Difficult
Writing End-to-End Tests for Bluetooth Applications is Difficult
The pitfalls of testing Bluetooth enabled applications and one team’s solution
Kyle Baker
Jul 10, 2020
20 Tips for Working Remotely
20 Tips for Working Remotely
We might’ve ignored the sarcasm rule on some of these
Alejandro Vélez-Calderón
Jun 17, 2020
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