Beam Dental

Easier, Smarter, Preventive

No yes. Either hell yeah, or no.

… and Why Algorithmic and Whiteboard Questions Don’t Work for Us

How the SRE team at Beam Dental revamped our continuous integration system by taking a fresh look at running Buildkite agents on Kubernetes.

Amidst a global pandemic and a move to remote-first, Beam’s culture is thriving

Much has been said regarding pair programming but what is the difference between pair programming (pairing) and collaboration?

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…

The pitfalls of testing Bluetooth enabled applications and one team’s solution

We might’ve ignored the sarcasm rule on some of these

An Introduction to Bundling for Beginners

Onboarding at a startup can be a challenge, but Beam’s people and guided program helped me get up to speed while getting to know my new team

Our takeaways from the very popular CodeMash conference held in Sandusky, Ohio.

Anonymizing to reduce bias in our interview process.

A look at improving code with long methods, too many temp variables, and other common code smells

The importance of understanding your framework deeply.

A glimpse of Beam’s dynamic Product team.

A Tale of Two Technologies

Ever wish your Jest/Enzyme test were a little more robust? Here are a few things that have worked well for us at Beam.

Ever thought to yourself: I wonder how 100 Years of Solitude, The Green Mile, and Pan’s Labyrinth compare to slinging code?

In a young startup, it is completely normal for MVP code to be written under a tight deadline, for projects to have pivoted, or for…

Pairing is a topic in software development that has more varying opinions than, we have exposed bricks in our edgy, hipster office space…

SSL certificate management is a pain point for a lot of IT shops. Typically certificate management is a manual process. You buy one year…

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Element.scrollTop? It’s not a story StackOverflow would tell you.

Creating a great engineering culture amidst rapid startup growth can be challenging, but it’s worth pursuing. This is one of the reasons I…