Zoosk Engineering

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…

At Zoosk, each developer is given access to a virtual machine with the entire Zoosk stack installed on it for development and testing…

Our Zoosk products support 27 languages, so as one can imagine, the variety of translated text lengths can impact the user interface…

Once upon a time at Zoosk, the deploy process used to be a lengthy ritual that could only be performed by a select few. It required…