Hospitable Code

When we talk about performance on the web, we often focus our conversation on load times — making sure our assets are optimized, cached…

Social Tables journey to trunk-based development, gitflow and continuous delivery

At Social Tables, DevOps is providing teams with the best tools to deliver our products to customers. Visually, it looks like this…

Tens of thousands plan their event layouts using Social Tables’ Diagram app. We render Diagram layouts in WebGL to provide the necessary…

Building a scalable solution to handle event notifications from SendGrid

Post-it notes; Gmail; Facebook’s “Like” button. What do these famous products have in common? They are all examples of when time spent…

I have spent some time reflecting on my experiences, over the past sixteen days, as the newest junior engineer on Social Tables’…

Congratulations! You’re about to embark on an exciting new chapter in your career. But, before jumping into an opportunity, you may want to…

Hi there, I joined the Social Tables Engineering team three months ago. It has been a great experience so far. Love the culture, love my…

To a human being, this tends to be a simple question. We can look at a table in front of us and quickly determine whether it is enclosed in…

A few weeks ago the news broke that the company behind RethinkDB is shutting down. Not exactly what I wanted to hear a month after making…

If there’s one thing the NPM community is famous for, its fragmentation. For many engineering problems, we’ve shot right past “there’s a…

This post is about why we chose to use JavaScriptCore and what we learned. The biggest challenges to using JavaScriptCore in a production…

Horizon is a realtime open-source backend for JavaScript apps, built by the RethinkDB team.

:> I am back. It’s been 1.382e+9 ms since last #WHATWE’REREADING update :(

Deploying is a problem we have to discuss everyday in Social Tables. This article shares some universal approaches on how to take a smarter…

You can now write css in javascript, like, now.

At Social Tables, we have a number of private npm packages, and I needed to create a new user, grant that user read-only access to our…