Zoosk Engineering

I spent a few days watching Udacity’s accessibility course by Google to get a handle on basic accessibility techniques. It turns out that…

There’s a lot of debate on whether to use em or px for breakpoint units in media queries. A few years ago Luke Wroblewski demoed his site…

In the last 16 years I’ve never had a project that required custom styles for disabled inputs. I know this because when I worked on such a…

At Zoosk we often use a pattern we call an interstitial. It’s a word or short phrase flanked on the left and right by a line, and it…

As a CSS author I’ve typed many property-value pairs over and over again in different declaration blocks, and it gets really tedious. Our…

This is part 2 of a 2 part series, check part1 if you haven’t already.

This is part 1 of a 2 part series on Migrating Automation Lab to the Cloud.

Over the last two months, I’ve been translating Zoosk’s 800,000-line ES5 Javascript codebase into Typescript. The process was long and…

A little less than a year ago, our VP of Engineering came to me after attending a CTO conference, and told me of a major tech company who…

My girlfriend doesn’t come from an engineering background, so it was interesting for her to hear that every six months I spend two weeks…

At Zoosk, the backend contains internal Java microservices that handle up to 400,000 requests per minute. New features and debugging issues…

Zoosk Java microservices are hosted on Amazon Elastic Container Service. In Amazon’s words, “Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) is a highly…

At Zoosk, we use New Relic to monitor our production traffic and user activity. The platform is incredibly useful for keeping a handle on…

Zoosk, like most other webapps, relies heavily on databases. More than 40 separate clusters of them, in fact. One of the first tasks we had…