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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    Building the Giphy app using the Mixmax SDK Update 10/22/15: The technical information in this post is outdated. See newer post about building this.
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    Scaling Mixmax: From Monolithic to Microservices In the next series of blog posts, we’ll open you up to the technical inner workings of Mixmax and discuss how we evolved it from a simple prototype …
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    Don’t wait for your PaaS’ status page to tell you why you’re down When you’re using a platform-as-a-service, it’s tempting to draw a boundary between your application and that platform—to look at your hosting …
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    Gmail just broke every Chrome extension. Here's how we fixed ours The bug: “Refused to load the script... because it violates the following Content Security Policy” Yesterday Gmail introduced a Content Security …
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    Watch Brad and Olof demo Mixmax at Meteor Devshop Check out Olof and I presenting Mixmax at Meteor Devshop in San Francisco on December 4, 2014.
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