Scala

Handling the Complexity of External Systems

How do you alleviate user pain points when the source of…

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

“I call it my billion-dollar…

Key things I picked up while working with Scala

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…

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…

Microservice Graph Explorer Open Sourced

The Microservice Graph Explorer helps you monitor the health…

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…

How Does a Billing System Work?

Introduction

Billing is easy right? Just charge a customer for the amount a product costs and call it a day! This works if you are selling physical goods for a one time purchase. However, if you are selling software as a service like…

How and Why We Adopted GraphQL

Introduction

Are you tired of having to make mobile specific APIs? Isn’t it just the most thrilling experience to have to parse through an extra long return payload just for one tiny piece of information? What if we could ask for specific…