Helpshift Engineering Blog

Saving inter-zone transfer costs in EC2 with HAProxy

By Ayush Goyal

TL;DR: We saved tens of thousands of dollars in ec2 inter-zone transfer costs by smartly routing traffic using haproxy.

Tale of Timezones and how FP is the Easy Way

By Moiz Jinia

Business hours check for a global business: The problem statement

Herald — Haproxy load feedback and check agent

By Raghu Udiyar

Today we are excited to to open source Herald — a load feedback and check agent for Haproxy.

Testing business logic using DSLs in Clojure

By Mayank Jain

Background

Testing business logic quickly becomes tricky, as applications grow and scale. Example based unit and integration tests, and exploratory tests become poor…

Migrating Gerrit from Google OpenID to Oauth

By Raghu Udiyar

Google is phasing out OpenID in favour of Oauth 2.0 with a deadline on 20th April, 2015 — just 10 days from today. A lot of projects depend on google auth, and can’t easily move to another OpenID…

Evolution of the Helpshift Unity plugin

By Rhishikesh Joshi

Background

“Make integration easier. No this is too much work for the devs, make it even easier”