Hootsuite Engineering

Recursively Merging JSONB in PostgreSQL

How the Impact team at Hootsuite uses a custom PostgreSQL…

The missing testing abstraction

I’m sure we can all agree that writing good tests is not always easy. There are many reasons for that…

The Case for Metrics In Jenkins

At Hootsuite, we know that we run up to 3000 Jenkins jobs per weekday. On weekends, it drops all the way…

Five Key Steps We Took to Achieve FedRAMP Authorized Designation

Automating Ow.ly Abuse Responses

Authors: Faheem Khan, Mahdi Fadaee and Cuneyt Karul

Introduction

Suggesting Social Media Posts Using Collaborative Filtering

The Magic of Consumer Driven Contract Tests

Learn about the power of consumer driven contract tests!

Hot-reloading on a dockerized flask app

At Hootsuite, my team was working with a dockerized flask app. Because we hadn’t set up…

Using GitOps + ArgoCD To Ship Kubernetes Changes Faster at Hootsuite

Building an Accessible Product

Accessibility’s a hot topic, and everyone’s pushing to make their…

Automating boilerplate generation with a CLI

At Hootsuite, we run a lot of AB tests. These tests…

The Suggested Reply Feature

The Machine Learning team at Hootsuite released the Suggested Reply to a small number of our customers (~200)…

Inbox: Powering our Front-End through a Data-Driven Model

React Re-render Optimization

Composer is a feature that Hootsuite supports allowing users to create and publish messages to social media…

Thresholding Our Smart Social Response Machine Learning Model

Migrating a codebase to React 16: some takeaways

Three Years In — Microservices, Containers and Kubernetes at Hootsuite

At Hootsuite, over 120 microservices support the core dashboard product, of which the majority run on Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This is an incredible change from three years ago, when the…

My Experiences with A/B Testing

Introduction

Null references or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Scala Options

“I call it my billion-dollar…

Handling the Business Side

Understanding the basics of the business of software

Key things I picked up while working with Scala

Introducing Self-Serve Plan Changes for Legacy Hootsuite Members

How we built a way for accounts on…

Everything you need to know about setState()

React is a JavaScript library for creating user…

Suggesting hashtags for social media posts: The ML approach