Troubleshooting `npm link` As of this writing, Mixmax runs 15 Node microservices. We keep this manageable by sharing a ton of code between services, in the form of npm packages …
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    The Effective Engineering Demo At Mixmax, our engineering team strives for a bottoms-up culture of product ownership. This means that anyone on the team, not just the founders or …
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    To Yarn and Back (to npm) Again Last year, we decided to move all of our JavaScript projects from npm to Yarn.
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    Choosing (and using) Javascript static typing Overview We love Javascript at Mixmax, and some specific attributes we love are its flexibility and speed of development. This helps us ship and …
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    Simply scalable Pritunl VPN deployments Being secure Every security minded organization knows the need for a secure manner to access their private networks, but even in this modern …
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    How Non-Engineers Test New Features at Mixmax Mixmax is essential to our customers’ workflows. Because of this, when we deploy new features to production, we want to avoid introducing any …
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    How to correctly specify default options in ES6 When writing modern JavaScript, it's common to collect multiple optional parameters into a trailing "options" object. This allows clients to pass a …
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    How to work remotely This is the final part of the Mixmax 2017 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 11th was about Elasticsearch vs Redshift for Real-Time …
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    Elasticsearch vs Redshift for Real-Time Ad-Hoc Analytics Queries This blog post is part of the Mixmax 2017 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 10th was about Understanding query performance in Mongo.
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    Improving Mongo performance by managing indexes This blog post is part of the Mixmax 2017 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 9th was about Introducing search-string: an advanced search …
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    Introducing search-string: an advanced search string parser This blog post is part of the Mixmax 2017 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 8th was about Beating Spam Detection Bots.
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    Beating Spam Detection Bots This blog post is part of the Mixmax 2017 Advent Calendar. The previous post on December 7th was Precisely observing structural page changes.
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