Resizing React Components

While working at Hootsuite, I’ve had the pleasure of working in-depth with React to build our newest features for the dashboard. For example, I was tasked with building a component to show a horizontal list of items that adapted to the changing window size. Based on the window…

Our Path from Monolith to Microservices

How our Lack of SQL Joins and Foreign Keys Aided Us in Our Journey

“We don’t have foreign keys in our databases at Hootsuite.”

Processing Big Data with a Micro-Service-Inspired Data Pipeline

You aren’t truly ready for a career in Big Data until you have everyone in the room cringing from the endless jargon you are throwing at them. Everyone in tech is always trying to out-impress one another with their…

How to make your automated tests run faster with Bazel

For our continuous delivery practice, an important part of shipping code to production is running automated tests against those production candidates to ensure the version of those applications work as we expect. Sometimes those…

Making Nachos: A Material Chips Library for Android

On the Hootsuite Android team, we recently found ourselves looking for a library that implemented material chips. Unfortunately, most of the libraries that existed were extremely tightly coupled to providing chips for contacts, and we…