Introduction
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…
Save time developing and testing your apps by writing reusable code. iOS streamlines the…
At Hootsuite we are moving towards having the majority of our services on Kubernetes, and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
Earlier this year, our Product Operations and Delivery team decided to migrate services from our Mesos cluster to Kubernetes. George…
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…
Traditionally, native Android development was done using Java. Kotlin is a relatively recent JVM language developed by JetBrains and was first released in 2011. The Android team at Hootsuite was one of the earliest adopters of Kotlin. In April 2016, the first Kotlin commit…
During my co-op term, I got the opportunity to work with the creators of Atlantis to contribute a Slack integration feature, providing value to both Hootsuite and the open source…
Here at Hootsuite we’re always looking for better ways to utilize our time and new technology. That’s why we’re looking at building an environment that helps developers leverage machine learning (ML) in production and minimize the…
For my coop term, my team and I tackled the Inbox project which is a platform that allows users to look at private messages across multiple social networks — think a Gmail or Facebook Messenger type experience, for all of…
