Being Creative When You’re Just Not Feeling it

The lie commonly told about creativity is that it’s an…

HA Redis for “smart” and “dumb” clients

Redis is an in-memory data structure store that can be used as a lightweight database, caching, or queuing system. Due to its speed and flexibility, it is a very popular infrastructure component, and can be used to solve a variety of problems, such as…

Why systemd is *great* for configuration management

Using ElasticSearch for Scalable Applications

How Treehouse decided which tools to use for scaling search features and how it’s helping us grow.

Continuous Improvements: 5 ways we’ve improved our build process at Treehouse

How the Designers at Treehouse Handle Critique

Earlier in the year our process for critique stopped working. We decided to ditch our weekly critiques in favor of something more ad-hoc.

♫ We Don’t Need Your Education ♫

Why Treehouse Engineering doesn’t ask job candidates if they have a college degree.

How we’re working to improve our design critiques at Treehouse

Continually improving process & team culture isn’t always easy. Here is one specific technique we’ve been using to help with that.

Out of Chaos, Engineering

The origin story of Treehouse Engineering. How we went from an informal…