How Experimentation Kept Us Shipping Code and Growing Through a Pandemic
It’s been a little more than a year since BackerKit went surprise-fully-remote due to the pandemic. In that time, the Product team has learned a lot about takin...
Engineering
Developer’s Guide to Successful Distributed Teams
Working as a distributed team can be tricky, but if you do it right, it can be great. I’ve been a remote developer at BackerKit for three years. It’s been a gre...
Finding My Fit At BackerKit
Digging the BackerKit Vibes
In my decade after college graduation, I held a wide variety of positions. I specialized in hardware configurations, drafted softwa...
Using Rails’ MessageVerifier for Stateless Token Management
Many web applications have the need to send links to users that allow the user to perform an action without logging in. Examples include password reset and conf...
Getting Started with Event Sourcing in Postgres
In a previous post we explored how our application tracks sent emails. We set things up to update or insert a record for each email with the current state (deli...
Building and Deploying Ruby Docker Images with CircleCI and Heroku
Heroku makes it dead simple to deploy and operate apps; Docker makes it even easier! Heroku has a Docker runtime in beta.
This article will review how to setup...
Tracking and Analyzing Emails Using Webhooks
Our application is driven by calls to action delivered to project backers via email. We send ~2 million emails a month with 98%+ deliverability.
Given the impo...
Building a Rack::Attack Dashboard
We found a way to deal with high volumes of traffic from malicious clients.