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Ryan Quan in Brigade Engineering

Sep 15, 2014

Brigade’s Experience Using an MVC Alternative

VIPER architecture for iOS applications

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Ryan Quan in Brigade Engineering

Mar 8, 2018

Reloading UITableView while Animating Scroll in iOS 11

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Shane da Silva in Brigade Engineering

Mar 16, 2015

Reduce Chef infrastructure integration test times by 75% with test-kitchen and Docker

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Nebs Petrovic in Brigade Engineering

Mar 14, 2016

Building Screen Flows with VIPER on iOS

We use the VIPER architecture pattern in the Brigade iOS app. We’ve had to build a few…

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Mark Cooper in Brigade Engineering

Nov 5, 2015

10,000 times faster than MySQL?

Keep it simple

At Brigade we are building easy and effective ways for people to declare their beliefs, organize with others, and take action to shape the policies affecting their lives. Our initial tool allows users to express whether they…

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Tom Dooner in Brigade Engineering

Aug 29, 2014

High availability Sidekiq with Redis Sentinel

Setting up a Sidekiq queue tolerant of Redis failure has never been easier. This…

Mark Cooper in Brigade Engineering

Apr 18, 2017

BigQuery — one store to rule them all

At Brigade we are building tools to help empower voters — specifically activists and organizers. We believe one of the keys to accomplishing this lies in data — data about voters, politicians, as well as various other civic datasets.

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Shane da Silva in Brigade Engineering

Nov 15, 2016

Dock: A tool to define, build, and run development environments with Docker

At Brigade, we’ve been using Docker both for development and production with great success for the past two years. While a post about how we use Docker in production is forthcoming, the tools we’ve…

Brian Peck in Brigade Engineering

Jan 13, 2015

Custom Layout interaction on Android, with no strong references

Avoid expensive bookkeeping in your…

Mark Cooper in Brigade Engineering

Feb 12, 2016

How to radically streamline complex analytics

At Brigade we are building a platform to revolutionize civic and social engagement. For us, data is king. We’ve used a number of off-the-shelf analytics products in our short existence as a company: Google Analytics, Kissmetrics, Branch.io and Tune…

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