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Engineering TypeScriptifying Our Flow Code: Tools and Lessons Learned Much of Mixmax's codebase was originally written in Flow, the most popular type-checking Javascript compiler at the time. In the years since, …

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Initializing Microservices with a Single Command Using Nx Generators This is a follow-up post to Migrating Our Largest Package into Smaller Libraries, published on December 9, 2021.

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Engineering The Mixmax Engineering Culture Survey A couple of years ago, I had a one-on-one with a teammate at Mixmax who was feeling frustrated at work and wanted to vent. (As much as we love …

Engineering Mentorship: What It Is and What It Isn't In your career, you’ll build relationships with a number of people who will help you grow and improve. These people can come from all sorts of …

Engineering Migrating Our Largest Package into Smaller Libraries Salesforce integration is an important part of our business here at Mixmax, so we always want to make it better and improve performance. In this …

Interview with a New Engineer: Meet Ebuka Ugwu We enjoyed our first interview with a new Mixmax engineer so much, we decided to do it again. Ever wondered about who we hire and what they do? Meet …

Engineering Keeping Your Infrastructure DRY Don’t repeat yourself! If your internal developer voice is like mine, you might hear the DRY principle constantly. But sometimes knowing how to avoid …

How Three Day Rule uses Mixmax to improve matchmaking In this post we’ll explore how exclusive matchmaking service Three Day Rule uses Mixmax Sequences and Rules to power their workflow. This article was …

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Engineering Beating Spam Detection Bots (Again) When we last blogged about our issues with spam detection bots four years ago, we talked about our success in reducing the number of false meeting …

Mixmax Band Names Mixmax’s launch in early 2015 was memorable for many reasons. For one, we had an inflatable llama. For another, we launched on ProductHunt to …

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Engineering Acing the Technical Screening Interview Did you know we’re hiring? We want stellar people like you to join our team. For that to happen, you’ll need to show us what you’ve got.

Engineering Work Locally, Run Remotely: Moving Our Local Dev Stack to the Cloud Many years ago we wrote about our transition from monolithic to microservices, and how we enabled the scalability of Mixmax by developing and …