Building Your First Enhancement using the SDK This post is part 4 in an engineering blog series about building on top of the Mixmax SDK. See part 1, part 2, and part 3.
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    Building Your First Link Resolver This post is part 3 in an engineering blog series about building on top of the Mixmax SDK. See part 1 and part 2.
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    Building Your First Slash Command This post is part 2 in an engineering blog series about building on top of the Mixmax SDK. See part 1 here.
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    How we built 'instant' autocomplete for Mixmax Performance is a big deal at Mixmax. Our users use the product all day, so we strive to make sure it’s a smooth and enjoyable experience. One area …
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    Introducing the Mixmax SDK Mixmax brings many popular web services to your email authoring experience, including Giphy, Google Calendar, Twitter, GitHub, and many more. We …
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    Migrating production services to AWS Elastic Beanstalk without downtime Mixmax started out as a monolithic Meteor application hosted on a PaaS provider (Modulus.io) that specialized in deploying NodeJS and Meteor …
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    HTTP cache-control header and the Chrome back button A common pitfall of sites that serve up dynamic information is to not include the proper cache-control headers. For example, a commonly used variant …
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    Node fibers: Patterns and anti-patterns using synchronize.js For all the discussion of “callback hell” in the JavaScript community—it even has its own website—there’s no standard solution to the problem, and …
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    Leveraging AWS API Gateway and Lambda to build a Slack bot The engineering team at Mixmax loves Slack integrations. Slack’s webhook API makes it super easy to integrate external data right into the heart of …
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    Unicode woes in Javascript At Mixmax, we send a lot of email. So we run into just about every unicode issue. This post describes a key learning about iterating strings in …
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    Bringing Meteor’s reactive collections to Backbone Last month, we migrated part of our app from Meteor to Backbone in order to improve our load time. As we wrote then, our users benefit from the …
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    Scaling Mixmax: Front-end performance This is the next post in a series on how we scaled Mixmax from a successful prototype to a platform that scales to many thousands of users. In this …
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