Mixmax Engineering Blog (8)

Mixmax Engineering Blog

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 …

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.