Transitive Closure in PostgreSQL
At Remind we operate one of the largest communication tools for education in the United States and Canada. We have...
2023
2022
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2020
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Remind's security stance in action
At Remind, we help educators communicate with millions of students and families. These connections are critical for supporting student learning,...
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How we reached 99.9% uptime during our busiest season
Availability is the lifeblood of any app. Downtime blocks new users from signing up, it damages the company reputation, and...
2019
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Hypothesis Testing in Production
At Remind we have built a robust communication platform that makes it easy for educators, students, and parents to work...
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Remind iOS: Present All the Things!
For the past couple years we’ve been implementing new features with an MVVM-driven approach. Over that time, we’ve settled into...
2018
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How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes
This issue was publicly disclosed on the Homebrew blog at https://brew.sh/2018/08/05/security-incident-disclosure/
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Building Infrastructure in Parallel
In the early days of stacker at Remind, the number of stacks that we were managing was just a handful....
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A Probabilistic Approach to Counting Message Deliveries
Message summaries help teachers, students and parents to communicate better
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Improving Redshift performance with Intermix
Here at Remind, Amazon Redshift is a centerpiece of our data infrastructure. Event data is continuously ingested into Redshift. ETL...
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Migrate the Empire to C5
Migrate the Empire to C5 — or why it took me a month to move from C4 to C5 AWS...
2017
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Share On Remind
At Remind, a core component of our product development process involves obsessing about data and investigating user behavior—especially the patterns...
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Operations Infrastructure Month in Review #4
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Operations Infrastructure Month in Review #3
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Why Qualitative Research Matters for Engineers
This article has to do with understanding user research from an engineering perspective. Whether you’re curious about the different types...
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Docker image digests
When you download something from the internet, a common method for determining both integrity and authenticity of an object is...
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Debugging IAM permissions with CloudTrail
An automated AWS service failing due to a missing IAM permission can have surprising causes. Examining the CloudTrail log the...
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Operations Infrastructure Month in Review #2
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Writing a Tabbed Container View Controller
One of the things I’ve focused on this year is improving the navigation within our app. Making the class menu...
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Building a Declarative Permissioning Service
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Operations Infrastructure Month in Review #1
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Keeping AWS secrets secret with ECS
One of the most important aspects of our security strategy in the Operations Engineering Team is to mitigate the risk...
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Beyond a Redshift-centric data model
Remind’s data engineering team strives to provide the whole company with access to the data they need and empower them...
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GraphQL Initiative at Remind
When Remind first started, it was a simple app that allowed teachers to send announcements to their students. Like many...
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Introducing Stacker
Stacker is Remind’s solution to deploying cloud infrastructure at scale. It allows you to quickly build, update, validate and deploy...
2016
2015
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Android Code That Scales, With MVP
It’s always easy to write a Hello World application, the code looks simple and straight forward and the SDK feels...
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Remind iOS: Our Path to Realm
It’s Hack Week at Remind! This week, everybody at the company gets to work on anything tangentially related to our...
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Remind iOS: Should you use Interface Builder?
Currently we use Interface Builder for a lot of iOS UI development at Remind and we are now thinking about...
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Our log streaming solution based on Amazon Kinesis
Today, we are open sourcing our log streaming solution for Empire.
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Introducing Conveyor: A fast build system for Docker images
Today, we’re open sourcing Conveyor, a fast build system for Docker images.
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Remind iOS by Example: RestKit and You
One of those most common and important things mobile applications do today is communicate with an API. In this blog...
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Introducing Empire: A self-hosted PaaS built on Docker & Amazon ECS
Today, Remind is open sourcing our self-hosted PaaS called Empire. Empire provides a 12 factor-compatible, Docker-based container cluster built on...
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Hire great software engineering interns
My experience as a co-op student from the University of Waterloo
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Customer support makes me a better engineer
On my first day at Remind, I was setting up my development environment when I received a meeting request from...