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Infrastructure as Code at Pocketgems
Infrastructure as Code at Pocketgems
During my initial days on the Data Infrastructure team, I was assigned various features and bug fixes. Over the next two months, I faced…
Rishit
Feb 16
Promise, Thenable and Cancelable Timers in JavaScript
Promise, Thenable and Cancelable Timers in JavaScript
Back in March, our VP of engineering David Underhill wrote a post about choosing the right tools to build Pocket Gems’ next generation…
Yu Guan
Jan 8
My Engineering Internship Experience at Pocket Gems
My Engineering Internship Experience at Pocket Gems
by former PG Intern, Alejandro Rodriguez
Pocket Gems
Nov 13, 2020
Reliably Unreliable Is the World We Live In
Reliably Unreliable Is the World We Live In
Learnings in Building a Reliable Networking System
Yu Guan
Oct 16, 2020
On Pitching Radically New Ideas
On Pitching Radically New Ideas
This is the core challenge of speaking up with an original idea. When you present a new suggestion, you’re not only hearing the tune in…
Samuel Peck
Oct 2, 2020
Price Optimization in Mobile Gaming
Price Optimization in Mobile Gaming
By Jialiang Shi
Pocket Gems
Sep 16, 2020
Fan to Full-Time — How Amber Martinez Took Her Writing Career to the Next Level at Pocket Gems
Fan to Full-Time — How Amber Martinez Took Her Writing Career to the Next Level at Pocket Gems
by Pocket Gems
Pocket Gems
Aug 17, 2020
How We Strengthened Our Approach to Predicting Lifetime Value
How We Strengthened Our Approach to Predicting Lifetime Value
There is no 100% accurate way to predict user behavior, but we get as close as possible by continuing to update our process. We focus on…
Sylvia Wu
Jul 28, 2020
Making the Most of Your Remote Internship
Making the Most of Your Remote Internship
by Jackie Cruz
Pocket Gems
Jul 8, 2020
Improving Time to Market through Centralized Infrastructure
Improving Time to Market through Centralized Infrastructure
How the Data Infrastructure team at Pocket Gems has helped optimize the development cycle of the company’s latest games.
Oliver Seifert
Jun 15, 2020
Unconventional Tech Stack for Games — React
Unconventional Tech Stack for Games — React
My experience using React as a game engine
Jennifer Goto
Jun 1, 2020
Overview of Pocket Gems’ Data Pipeline
Overview of Pocket Gems’ Data Pipeline
This post describes the infrastructure of the Pocket Gems’ data pipeline, and how it ensures stability, scalability, and low latency.
Chenyu Yan
May 20, 2020
Breaking Core Assumptions
Breaking Core Assumptions
by Pocket Gems Engineer, Jonathan Ho
Pocket Gems
May 4, 2020
Running Unit Test on Top of Serverless Service
Running Unit Test on Top of Serverless Service
Using serverless service to overclock your local parallelization. Study case: Run faster unit tests with hundreds of parallelization.
Adinata Thayib
Apr 3, 2020
Microservices: Cloud Reviews & Benchmarks
Microservices: Cloud Reviews & Benchmarks
by Pocket Gems VP of Engineering, David Underhill
Pocket Gems
Mar 25, 2020
Redshift — The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Redshift — The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
An analysis of redshift as a cloud data warehouse
Shimul Bhowmik
Mar 9, 2020
Reimagining Onboarding For a More Productive Team
Reimagining Onboarding For a More Productive Team
Structure your onboarding for consistency, employee success, and monotonically increasing returns on your initial time investment.
Anthony Perello
Feb 7, 2020
Using User Experience Best Practices to Improve Apparent Speed
Using User Experience Best Practices to Improve Apparent Speed
On the Episode team at Pocket Gems, we care a lot about creating a fantastic user experience for people who create stories on our platform…
Rick Sanders
Jan 10, 2020
Let’s Talk Leverage: Simple Tooling
Let’s Talk Leverage: Simple Tooling
How small improvements can have a disproportionate impact on your team’s productivity
Anthony Perello
Dec 2, 2019
Interning on a Game Team — A Look at a Summer at Pocket Gems
Interning on a Game Team — A Look at a Summer at Pocket Gems
In the hustle and bustle of downtown San Francisco, where the only thing pricier than the rent is the avocado toast, lies a hidden gem…
Kashif Nazir
Nov 5, 2019
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