Mixmax Engineering Blog (8)

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 …

Batching CloudWatch metrics tl;dr - We saw a noticeable decrease in our AWS bill by batching CloudWatch metrics.

How to Write an Engineering Blog Post This blog post is the final post of the Mixmax 2016 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 11th was about a lightweight alternative to …

Integration Testing for Humans This blog post is part of the Mixmax 2016 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 10th was about making a holiday guestbook using the Mixmax …

Fun With the API This blog post is part of the Mixmax 2016 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 9th was about cpu profiling node processes.

Determining why that server is on fire This blog post is part of the Mixmax 2016 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 8th was about the Gmail PubSub API.

Adventures in the Gmail PubSub API

Adventures in the Gmail PubSub API This blog post is part of the Mixmax 2016 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 7th was about rewriting 30,000 lines of code.

Rewriting 30,000 lines of code in a friendly way This blog post is part of the Mixmax 2016 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 6th was about Improving Elasticsearch query times.

30x Faster Elasticsearch Queries This blog post is part of the Mixmax 2016 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 5th was about securing server-side requests with JWT tokens.

Securely signing requests with Rewt This blog post is part of the Mixmax 2016 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 4th was about CORs headers.

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.