Manifold Newsletter — March 8, 2018
Happy International Women’s Day 👭👭👭👭!
Jeff wrote a post to spotlight the women at Manifold. Luiz shows how you can use Go interfaces to switch external services. Nick discusses how our team makes design decision using design systems. Dan teaches how to write and run tests that’ll keep you from going crazy. Colin talks about how to make A/B that matter. And lastly, our #TBT post where I pick one of my favorite posts from the past.
Happy International Women’s Day
All around the globe people are showcasing and celebrating the achievements of women. Here at Manifold we’re fortunate to work with some amazing women across all facets of our company, so we’d like to take a chance to turn the spotlight on them.
How Go interfaces can facilitate switching external services
Recently Manifold replaced our email service provider from SendGrid to Mailgun. Luiz explores how we leveraged Go interfaces to make the switch easier, improve our tests and, instead of a complete replacement, we ended up using the older service as a fallback.
Design systems and decision making
As our team of front-end engineers keeps growing we require a more inclusive method of communicating brand style and principles. Nick explains how we use design systems to provide a clear solution on how to communicate design across both design and engineering orgs.
How to write tests and maintain your sanity
We know testing is important and shipping things that function is a must. Dan digs into writing and running good End-to-End tests that give your team the confidence that the system they ship works together properly.
📈 A/B testing with limited data at a startup
Colin wants you to remember “data trumps gut”. If you’re going to go to the work of A/B testing something then you need be sure you’re doing the right thing to make sure the test is valid.
#TBT
Building Great Products with Manifold
David Smooke, the Editor in Chief of Hackernoon interviewed Peter, Manifold’s VP of Product a few months ago. If you missed it the first time it was in the newsletter, I highly recommend going back and reading it. It is both funny and informative.
