From Monolith to Micro-Services

Six years ago, Zoosk was a web and desktop application built with a monolithic architecture. Today, the…

Test Databases in Docker Containers

Docker is an obvious choice for packaging stateless services — but what about databases? We tried it out for packaging our test data sets. After a few lessons learned, the result is a nice win in developer efficiency.

Functional Teams or Feature Teams?

As Zoosk Engineering has grown throughout the years, we’ve aligned our teams in different ways based on the needs and challenges that our organization was facing at that time. One of our core values is to continually challenge the status quo by always looking for ways…

Creating an Open Source Guild at Zoosk

Open source software is computer software where the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose. When you take a step back and think about it, it can seem strange that anyone would want to put…

Solving a Sticky Issue with a Sticky Element

We recently added a new visual element to our subscription settings view in which a semi-transparent overlay covers the view when a user clicks on a button to either reactivate a subscription or an upgrade option. This prevents the user from taking a…

Zoosk’s DC Migration

Last week, Zoosk’s operations team said goodbye to the data center that has been our home for the past seven or so years…

Bugs at Zoosk from the VIP point of view!

Consider the following three simple facts.

1. Continuous Improvement is good. People love it. It’s simply build, fail, and learn. And in order to learn faster, you have to build faster. But you might also fail faster — even faster…