Top Stories published by Thumbtack Engineering in 2018

Troubleshooting Gunicorn and Gevent

By: Alexander Kojevnikov

At Thumbtack we run a few Python services via Gunicorn WSGI HTTP server . As those services are mostly I/O bound, gevent is a great choice for them. However, we have encountered a few issues with this…


Java is dead, long live Kotlin

By: Mariano Simone

When official Android support for Kotlin was announced on May 2017, I got really excited. Don’t get me wrong, I love Java: it was the first language I used professionally, and it has a very strong community, a myriad…