Mixmax Engineering Blog (7)

SFNode Meetup: hosted at Mixmax Last Thursday I presented at the SFNode meetup which we hosted here at Mixmax. My presentation was on Promise patterns in Node 6 and beyond.

SF ReactJS Meetup: hosted at Mixmax I recently had the pleasure of presenting at the SF ReactJS meetup which was hosted here at Mixmax. I presented on a blog post that I previously …

API Paging Built The Right Way Mixmax has a very extensive list of APIs that give our users direct access to all of their data. Some APIs, such as Contacts can return millions of …

Announcing Bee-Queue v1.0 Today we're announcing the v1.0 release of Bee-Queue: a fast, lightweight, robust Redis-backed job queue for Node.js. With the help of Bee-Queue's …

React without Redux Background Mixmax was originally built using MeteorJS, a full-stack JavaScript framework that enabled us to build features extremely quickly. As our …

Using Arena with AWS ElastiCache hosted Redis Update 7/14/17: Mixmax switched over to using Bee-Queue instead of Bull, but Arena continue to work for both.

Arena: an open-source UI for Bull/Bee queues Update 7/14/17: Mixmax switched over to using Bee-Queue instead of Bull, but Arena continue to work for both.

Using CORS policies to implement CSRF protection This post is a follow-on to our CORS post back in December. We'll describe how traditional CORS policies aren't sufficient defense against cross-site …

Running client tests headlessly with Jasmine and PhantomJS using Erik

Running client tests headlessly with Jasmine and PhantomJS using Erik We recently released Erik (name origin), an open-source Node package for running jasmine tests headlessly with PhantomJS and gulp.

Yarn-ifying Mixmax Last week, we finished transitioning all of our services and shared modules to Yarn, Facebook’s replacement for npm. Here’s how we decided to make …

Writing an effective bug report When we write bug reports, most of the time we have a clear vision of what just happened or what steps were taken in order to reach to a situation …

Monitoring slow Mongo queries Here at Mixmax it’s no secret that we use Mongo for a lot of different things. One issue that we’d had for a long time though was our ability to …