By Daniel Lemmon This post will show how counting with computers isn’t as easy as The Count from Sesame Street makes it out to be. Distributed incrementing — i.e. 1, 2, 3, etc. — gets complicated in distributed systems. Why would you want incrementing like this? At Shippo, we can…

By Will Clinton At Shippo, user experience is always a top priority. “Customers For the Win” is one of our guiding principles. As our user base has grown, we have been facing some tough questions on how to keep user friction low while protecting ourselves from fraudsters. The balance between…

By Pini Shah Code review is a systematic process to verify and check the produced code. To start with the basics, the manual code review entails reading the source code line by line to look out for vulnerabilities. This process demands a lot of skills, experience, and patience. Also, issues…

By Aaron Wong Shippo’s release cadence and feedback loop friction As we grow and scale product development on our web properties at Shippo, receiving feedback from stakeholders early in the development process becomes increasingly crucial. Getting feedback involves either taking screenshots or video recordings and sharing async with design or product management partners. If developers want to…

By Aravindh Balakrishnan Logging and instrumentation are two critical tools which help in monitoring the health of any system. We at Shippo rely heavily on Sumo Logic for application and load balancer logs; and on CloudWatch metrics for instrumentation. …

By Tarandeep Sahota Background React performance testing is a hot topic here at Shippo right now, and it’s been paying off for us — we’ve managed to cut load time for the main flows of our web app by 60% with just a few small changes. …