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• Inside WeWork's Tech Stack – WeWork Engineering

  Jun 15, 2015 - Matt Star 1 minute read Last week, our friends at Underdog featured a story about our Tech Stack written by one of our longest tenured Lead Software Developers...

• Creating BEM Stylesheets for React Components – WeWork Engineering

  Oct 19, 2015 11 minute read There are plenty of options to choose from when it comes to frontend methodologies. As I’ve learned while working with Ember and React.js, web interfaces ar...

• Additional tips on improving scrolling performance of a UICollectionView – WeWork Engineering

  Recently we improved the scrolling performance of the WeWork iOS app with the goal of getting as close to 60 fps consistently as possible. The blog post describes our experience solving the issue and ...

• Why WeWork.com uses a static generator and why you should too – WeWork Engineering

  Back when the web first started, things were a lot simpler. Most websites were made up of static html pages and there weren't a lot of moving parts. This is the story of how wework.com went from a mon...

• Rabbits, Bunnies and Threads – WeWork Engineering

  When writing Ruby, we sometimes take advantage of the single threaded nature of the environment and forget some of the pitfalls of being thread safe. When using servers such as Puma that allow us to t...

• Adding columns with default values to really large tables in Postgres + Rails – WeWork Engineering

  Application is slower due to all the writes to notifications table Nothing grinds to a halt Takeaways Be mindful of the transaction size Leverage Postgres features Handle NULL case in code to treat as...