Top Stories published by strava-engineering in 2018

Quantifying Effort through Heart Rate Data

From Suffer Score to Relative Effort

Written by: Chris Spada and Will Meyer

One of our most popular Premium features is Suffer Score, a way to quantify effort during an activity using heart rate data…


Experimenting with GraphQL

Strava has had a public REST API since 2011. I won’t enumerate all of the classic REST shortcomings, but here are three Strava-specific highlights:

  1. Our mobile apps make a lot of requests when they boot and our REST APIs are difficult to optimize for the…

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