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How Reliable are your Queries?
Unit Testing for SQL
Connor Lennox
Aug 8, 2022
What is Sustainable Throughput?
What is Sustainable Throughput?
Don’t sweat your maximum throughput. Find your sustainable throughput so that you can choose the right target throughput.
Brian Taylor
Jul 29, 2022
The Second Law of Latency: Latency distributions are NEVER NORMAL
The Second Law of Latency: Latency distributions are NEVER NORMAL
In the First Law of Latency we remembered that when discussing latency in general we should always be using the language of statistical…
Brian Taylor
Jun 28, 2022
The First Law of Latency: There is no THE LATENCY of the System
The First Law of Latency: There is no THE LATENCY of the System
Step 1 of preparing you to make correct, data empowered decisions about latency
Brian Taylor
Jun 23, 2022
I/Own It 2020 Recipients
I/Own It 2020 Recipients
By Laura Engstrand
Laura Engstrand
Jan 19, 2021
Testing SDKs at Optimizely (Part 2)
Testing SDKs at Optimizely (Part 2)
Last time we talked about how we have applications wrapping our SDKs and how we use Cucumber to run tests written in Gherkin syntax…
Ali Abbas Rizvi
Dec 7, 2020
Testing SDKs at Optimizely (Part 1)
Testing SDKs at Optimizely (Part 1)
I’ve been at Optimizely for a little over 6 years. Through this time I’ve had the good fortune to work on various application aspects. I…
Ali Abbas Rizvi
Dec 1, 2020
A Better Way to Test for Sample Ratio Mismatches (SRMs) and Validate Experiment Implementations
A Better Way to Test for Sample Ratio Mismatches (SRMs) and Validate Experiment Implementations
…or why I don’t use a Chi-squared test.
Michael Lindon
Nov 12, 2020
How Optimizely used Cypress.io to automate testing within its AppExchange App in Salesforce
How Optimizely used Cypress.io to automate testing within its AppExchange App in Salesforce
This past quarter, Optimizely launched on the Salesforce Appexchange! This was super exciting for the whole team and went smoothly thanks…
Mike London
Oct 30, 2020
Meditation and Software Engineering
Meditation to me means connecting to myself and carrying the feeling of connectedness during the day. I used to be more anxious and a…
Matjaz Pirnovar
Oct 29, 2020
6 Women Engineers Share Their Thoughts on Grace Hopper
6 Women Engineers Share Their Thoughts on Grace Hopper
The weather is crisp 🍁 and Grace Hopper Celebration is just around the corner. This year things are a little different. For many of us…
Yeesheen
Sep 23, 2020
What I Learned From My Internship
What I Learned From My Internship
Introduction
Nina Vuong
Sep 15, 2020
4 Key Changes I Saw In Myself After My First Remote Internship
4 Key Changes I Saw In Myself After My First Remote Internship
Hi! I’m Gauri Dhawan, a graduate student at NYU studying computer science. This summer I interned at Optimizely as a software engineering…
Gauri Dhawan
Aug 24, 2020
Interning at Optimizely: a UX Engineering perspective
Interning at Optimizely: a UX Engineering perspective
This summer I was one of nine remote interns at Optimizely. Due to COVID-19 none of us were able to come into the office, but despite the…
Emily Lepert
Aug 21, 2020
Data Export Usage Telemetry Collection Project
Data Export Usage Telemetry Collection Project
My internship project on how I built a real-time data pipeline to track customers’ usage telemetry data of our data export products.
Noel Mendoza
Jun 8, 2020
Using Optimizely Plugins and Extensions for Feature Development
Using Optimizely Plugins and Extensions for Feature Development
As a developer using feature flags while building Optimizely, I had to switch back and forth cutting and pasting between the application…
Tom Zurkan
May 26, 2020
How I built the Optimizely C SDK Wrapper using the Go SDK in a week (part 2)
How I built the Optimizely C SDK Wrapper using the Go SDK in a week (part 2)
Here is part 2 of my hack week project the Optimizely Go SDK C Wrapper. If you haven’t already I recommended reading part 1. The project…
Ola Nordstrom
Apr 9, 2020
How to Write Automation Tests for Feature Flags with Cypress.io and Selenium
How to Write Automation Tests for Feature Flags with Cypress.io and Selenium
At Optimizely, we deploy a large amount of our code behind feature flags because it gives us the benefits of shortening our release cycle…
Todd Seller
Apr 3, 2020
How I built the Optimizely C SDK using the Go SDK in a week (part 1)
How I built the Optimizely C SDK using the Go SDK in a week (part 1)
Hack Week
Ola Nordstrom
Mar 25, 2020
Happy Birthday Optimizely’s QA Team
Happy Birthday Optimizely’s QA Team
Optimizely’s Quality Engineering team was born on January 1st, 2018. It’s been quite a journey since that first day. To mark the…
Jeff Sing
Jan 2, 2020
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