Engineers @ Optimizely

Engineers @ Optimizely

Connor Lennox

How Reliable are your Queries?

Unit Testing for SQL

5 min readAug 8, 2022

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Brian Taylor

What is Sustainable Throughput?

Don’t sweat your maximum throughput. Find your sustainable throughput so that you can choose the right target throughput.

4 min readJul 29, 2022

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What is Sustainable Throughput?

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Brian Taylor

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…

4 min readJun 29, 2022

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The Second Law of Latency: Latency distributions are NEVER NORMAL

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Brian Taylor

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

3 min readJun 23, 2022

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The First Law of Latency: There is no THE LATENCY of the System

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Laura Engstrand

I/Own It 2020 Recipients

By Laura Engstrand

6 min readJan 19, 2021

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I/Own It 2020 Recipients

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Ali Abbas Rizvi

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…

3 min readDec 7, 2020

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Testing SDKs at Optimizely (Part 2)

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Ali Abbas Rizvi

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…

6 min readDec 2, 2020

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Testing SDKs at Optimizely (Part 1)

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Mike London

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…

6 min readOct 30, 2020

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How Optimizely used Cypress.io to automate testing within its AppExchange App in Salesforce

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Matjaz Pirnovar

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…

6 min readOct 30, 2020

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Yeesheen

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…

10 min readSep 23, 2020

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