Pipedrive Engineering

A sneak peek into data engineering, processes and technologies at Pipedrive

An efficient company wants to produce minimal waste and only work on the most valuable features and products for their customers. At…

Creating and maintaining APIs is no easy task — we create methods, test them, and then update them several times. Over this span of time…

After spending significant time building a federated GraphQL stack, and seeing it start to take shape, we realized that we were now…

The first part of this article was well received, some bugs and improvements have been made since and I have to thank for the feedback…

How to avoid spaghetti code

A write-up of how the Redis lock (Redlock) can be used excessively yet successfully to achieve more than seems feasible at first.

Every successful or growing SaaS company usually reaches the point where serving customers from one datacenter (DC) isn’t enough…

Testing services in isolation using docker-compose

How do you utilize logging to gain enough context to understand a problem without exposing sensitive information?

Can you still rely on IFrame? Has it become outdated? Read what our research uncovered.

Growth and Scalability

“My first job in the 1990s was spamming companies with e-mails from a computer at my school trying to sell them lactic acid. I wish…

Transitioning from Startup to Scaleup is, on many levels, an extremely rewarding process, but it can also lead to the discovery of some…

When companies talk about Agile, it’s quite common that regardless of the framework they use, they will have very similar ideas towards…

First-hand experience speeding-up big legacy system

What’s hiding in your server log data? Hint: you’d better start paying attention.

The origin of the FedEx day name is simple — you order some items and then get them delivered within the next 24 hours. The same idea can…