This week our chat was on Erlang, a language developed to be supremely concurrent and reliable. As a result, in the last 24 hours no fewer than 6 subsystems here have been looked at with the idle thought that it might be time for a rewrite. Thus is the seductiveness of Erlang. The bits we ...
Adam is a software engineer here at Causes and has the best personal bio on our team page. Fast deploys are important for keeping up overall momentum on a programming team. If an entire deploy takes 40 minutes, friction is high and deploys happen less frequently — meaning that “finished” code sits around longer waiting ...
This week in Causes Tech is brought to you by Causes front-end developer Dustin Weatherford. Any veteran web developer has come across big CSS selectors. Sometimes it’s a Frankenstein selector that has been pieced together by an infinite number of developers, other times it’s a selector defined with alphabetically placed attributes in hopes of finding ...
This week marked the conclusion of the latest Causes hackathon. We presented our achievements, talked about what it would take to “ship” (to go live in the world of Causes.com), and doled out a few awards. Hackathons are usually 36-48 hour periods when we stop everything that we’ve been working on, building features, fixing bugs, ...
Causes is hiring engineers. So is everyone else in Silicon Valley. Last week our team sat down and decided we needed to do more. Like so many other tech start-ups, Causes can’t seem to fill its engineering positions fast enough. It’s trendy to lure engineers with promises of free beer, taco trucks and ping pong ...