Hootsuite Engineering

The Suggested Tags Service

Hootsuite’s Premier Machine Learning Feature

A Comprehensive Guide to Validating and Formatting Credit Cards

Credit card forms are one of those elements that every online business will have to implement at one point or another, and they can often be a pain point for both developers and users. That being said, it’s crucial that…

Mocking in In-App Purchase UI Tests — Mockito, Dagger2 and Espresso

Stateless Components with React

Introduction

Migrating the App Directory from Monolith to Microservice

If you’ve ever worked with an old legacy codebase, then you probably understand the value of refactoring. Code refactoring is the process of restructuring existing code without changing its external behaviour. The goal is to…

Building Robust Components with React Children

A Quick Introduction to React Children

MySQL Bastion: Streamlined DB Access With ProxySQL, Vault and AD

What is a Bastion?

Optimistic Updates with RxKotlin and ItemTouchHelper (Android)

Building Docker Images inside Kubernetes

The Problem

Explore Your GraphQL Server in the Browser with GraphiQL

Developing Reusable Components for iOS

Save time developing and testing your apps by writing reusable code. iOS streamlines the…

Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Hashicorp Vault

At Hootsuite we are moving towards having the majority of our services on Kubernetes, and…

Building a Kubernetes Based Development Environment for Services

Using Terraform at Scale

How to find your security group in a haystack

Terraform is a tool developed by Hashicorp that enables you to declare your infrastructure as code:

“Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning…

Handling asynchronous errors in Scala at Hootsuite

Introduction

Every day Hootsuite makes hundreds of thousands of API calls, and processes millions of events that happened in various social networks. Our microservice architecture, and a handful of…

Using Akka Streams

Introduction

At Hootsuite the Play framework has been an important part of our Scala based microservices. As we refined our practices, however, we began to experiment at a lower level of abstraction than the Play framework provides. In fact, since version 2.5, Play’s…

Billing Platform Migrations @ Hootsuite

how we support multiple sources of billing information

Microservice Graph Explorer Open Sourced

The Microservice Graph Explorer helps you monitor the health…

A Scalable, Reliable Webhook Dispatcher Powered by Kafka

The Universal Polling System

The world of social media moves fast as new platforms arise and gain popularity. Since Hootsuite is here to champion the power of human connection, we want to be able to integrate new social channels quickly. This was one of the driving factors behind creating a universal…

Service Health Checks, Alerts and a bit of Graphite Plotting

As summer interns on the Measure backend team in Bucharest, we had to implement functionalities for both Hootsuite Insights and Analytics. We worked on three main projects, involvins controllers and services.

Developing a fully Serverless Web app

Background

As many companies tend towards a service oriented architecture, developers will often wonder whether more and more parts of their service could be moved into the cloud. Databases, file storage, and even servers are…

How Our Service Mesh Eased Migrating From Mesos To Kubernetes

Why Migrate? — The Non-Technical Parts

Earlier this year, our Product Operations and Delivery team decided to migrate services from our Mesos cluster to Kubernetes. George…

App Directory: MongoDB to SQL

The Hootsuite App Directory is a collection of extensions and applications which Hootsuite users can add to their Hootsuite dashboard to create a customized experience. Since its launch in 2011, it has been used by millions of Hootsuite customers. In the past 6 years, it has…