Mixmax Engineering Blog (10)

Mixmax Engineering Blog

What is CORS? This blog post is part of the Mixmax 2016 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 3rd was about Node 6 features.

Node 6 LTS is finally here This blog post is part of the Mixmax 2016 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 2nd was about Upgrading to Node 6 on Elastic Beanstalk.

Upgrading to Node 6 on Elastic Beanstalk This blog post is part of the Mixmax 2016 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 1st was about Mixmax’s open-source culture.

Mixmax Advent 2016 Over the next 12 days we’ll be sharing one engineering post per day, carrying forward a long internet tradition of blog advent calendars. Follow …

An Open Source Culture Open Source Culture Mixmax’s engineering team was founded on the principle of openness. From our very beginning just two years ago, we’ve embraced an …

Native Support for Websockets on AWS Mixmax started out as a monolithic Meteor application hosted on Modulus.io. As our traffic and user base grew we ran into problems with both Meteor …

Redfour: Binary Semaphores in Redis and Node We just released a small module called Redfour that could be very helpful to you if you’re using Node in a distributed system. It implements a binary …

Requiring Node Built-ins with Webpack Webpack is infamous for being complicated, but it actually does quite a lot for you out of the box. Bundling a Node/CommonJS module for the browser …

Taming the Imports Performance is critical to every web application, and something we care deeply about at Mixmax. That's why we invest in performance best-practices, …

Generating Certificates for Local Development Mixmax is a rich communications client integrated directly into Gmail using iframes. As such, we need to load all our resources over https - both for …

Watch Jeff Present the Electron app at Meteor Night Check out Mixmax engineer Jeff Wear and Meteor open-source contributor Mike Risse presenting our new Mixmax app at Meteor Devshop in San Francisco on …

Turn-key Electron apps with Meteor Last month, we released our first desktop application to rave reviews. After several improvements and the release of the Windows version, we’re …