Software engineer Erica Lloyd moderates a discussion on Diversity and Inclusion in recruiting at Tribe, BigCommerce's employee resource group for women and allies.BigCommerce is full of brilliant, dedicated people focused on revolutionizing the world of e-commerce, with offices in… continue reading
In September 2017, we hosted the SydPHP Laravel meetup at our BigCommerce offices in Sydney. Here are the slides for the talk I gave on how we have been scaling our infrastructure. BigCommerce: Running e-Commerce at Scale from Ian Bissett… continue reading
Today, we'd like to announce the availability of our latest open source project: gruf, a Ruby framework for building gRPC services. Over the past year at BigCommerce, we've begun using gRPC for our internal services. We believe gRPC provides the… continue reading
I’ll be straightforward at the start of this post: I firmly believe that the most important issue a company deals with is how it reconciles itself with technical debt. Period. Now, here’s the real point of this post:… continue reading
TL;DR: Move Service Locator calls up the object graph iteratively. ALSO: Poor Man's Dependency Injection breaks testing. Avoid it. More and more, application architecture is migrating towards Dependency Injection to decouple components and ease testing. One of the challenges… continue reading