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[...] we use for lifecycle marketing, personalization, and experimentation. What are your primary programming languages? Ruby and JavaScript are our primary programming languages, but we also rely on Scala [...]

[...] and Forbes recently named it to its list of Most Promising Companies. What are your primary programming languages? PHP and JavaScript are our primary programming languages and they were chosen for [...]

[...] range from consumer app development to large scale data processing. What are your primary programming languages? Wildcard’s core platform, which sits between every card interaction and the existing [...]

[...] building award-winning user experiences for our Android and iOS apps. What are your primary programming languages? Oyster’s backend was originally written in Python, but we’re in the process of [...]

[...] a web-based approach as a good fit for our app, and have kept it native. What are your primary web frameworks? Our Python backend is a Django app, and we use TastyPie for our API. Django and TastyPie [...]

[...] to learn it, but eventually leads to a much cleaner and extensible app. What are your primary web frameworks? We’ve built a lightweight framework for timehop specific stuff (like authentication, API [...]

[...] our community at large has built Datadog modules in 10 different languages. What are your primary web frameworks? Our web layer is fairly thin compared to the rest of the product. The most interesting [...]

[...] , Ruby for building web based tools, and Objective-C for iOS development. What are your primary web frameworks? Our high performance APIs are built using DropWizard on the JVM stack, and Sinatra + [...]

This is the first in a regular series where Underdog.io customers will discuss their technology stacks and some of the thinking behind their architect [...]

This is the second installment in our inside look at the technology stacks and architecture decisions of Underdog.io customers. This week, we hear fr [...]

This is the third installment in our inside look at the technology stacks and architecture decisions of Underdog.io customers. This week, we hear from [...]

This is the latest in our “Inside the Stack” series featuring Underdog.io customers. This week, we hear from Benny Wong, Co-Founder & CTO of� [...]

[...] , performance, and simplicity of DropWizard for building APIs. What are your primary databases? At Wildcard we’re big fans of MongoDB for both serving application data and as a [...]

[...] state after building other parts of the site in Backbone and Ember. What are your primary databases? PostgreSQL is our workhorse for data storage. It’s reliable, predictable, and has performed [...]

[...] simple things such as our models, views, and what we call “components”). What are your primary databases? Our only database is MySQL. Many of us here have been working with MySQL for a long time, [...]

[...] of our traffic comes through our API, but for what we do have we use Rails. What are your primary databases? We use PostgreSQL, Redis, and DynamoDB. PostgreSQL is tried and true; Redis is amazingly [...]

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[...] josh@underdog.io if you’d like to be featured in this series. Get your resume in front of top startups in 60 seconds → [...]

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[...] and Wildcard! Be sure to check out the Wildcard iOS app to see all of this tech in action, and email josh@underdog.io if you’d like to be featured in the next installment in this series. [...]

[...] and Oyster’s web and mobile products to see all of their tech in action. Companies: email josh@underdog.io if you’d like to be featured in this series. Apply to New York City’s top [...]

[...] managedbyq.com to learn more about their platform and to see their tech in action. Companies: email josh@underdog.io if you’d like to be featured in this series. Get your resume in front of top [...]

[...] datadog.com to read more about the company and to see their technology in action. Companies: email josh@underdog.io if you’d like to be featured in this series. Get your resume in front of top [...]

[...] This is the first in a regular series where Underdog.io customers will discuss their technology stacks and some of the thinking behind their architecture. [...]

[...] installment in our inside look at the technology stacks and architecture decisions of Underdog.io customers. This week, we hear from Andrew Peace, an engineer at the rapidly-growing smart office [...]

[...] This is the latest in our “Inside the Stack” series featuring Underdog.io customers. This week, we hear from Benny Wong, Co-Founder & CTO of Timehop. Benny and his team [...]

[...] This is the latest in our “Inside the Stack” series featuring Underdog.io customers. This week, we hear from Alexis Lê-Quôc, the CTO & Co-Founder of Datadog. Alexis and [...]

[...] /supply chain/distribution engine that powers all our after-purchase decision engines. The Data Engineering team is responsible for building distributed systems that reliably ingest, store, and index [...]

[...] . • Fairly tight budget until we raise a round. • Only full-time developer until we build an engineering team. Email chris@underdog.io to apply. Sorry, we can’t sponsor visa candidates. [...]

[...] implementing and documenting our processes around these tools so that the rest of the engineering team can be as efficient as possible. Which part of your stack are you most excited about? [...]

[...] proficient in them. Hiring talented developers is one of the hardest parts of scaling a tech startup. It’s important not to start off behind the eight ball when trying to scale quickly. Being [...]

[...] . Wildcard released their iOS app yesterday after 18 months of building. Doug and the Wildcard team have made multiple engineering hires through Underdog.io. Describe Wildcard in 2-3 [...]