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Mixmax Engineering Blog

JavaScript to TypeScript

Incremental Migration from JavaScript to TypeScript in Our Largest Service Mixmax is migrating our JavaScript (JS) code to TypeScript (TS). We already have an article about migrating from Flow to TypeScript, but until this …

Mixmax Engineering Interviews: What It’s Like, and What We Look For

Mixmax Engineering Interviews: What It’s Like, and What We Look For We’re hiring! And if you’re reading this, it’s likely that you already knew that. We want the most gifted and talented people (like you) to join our …

Mixmax Advent 2022 Mixmax Engineering is back at it again this year! We’re continuing our proud tradition of Advent blogging, where we release one blog post per day in …

TypeScript

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.

survey results showing improvement on engineering culture

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 …

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 …

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 …

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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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 …