International Women in Tech Visit BigCommerce
BigCommerce “inspired me to continuously grow and be a leader of excellence.“ - Elena Chigibaeva, TechWomen Mentee… continue reading
Kate Walters: From Law to Tech
My introduction into development was not a straight path nor a traditional one, but I believe there is value in working with people of all sorts of backgrounds.… continue reading
Diversity opens doors in product and engineering
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
SydPHP Laravel Talk: BigCommerce at Scale
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
BigCommerce, gRPC, and gruf - a Ruby gRPC Framework
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
Why the way we look at technical debt is wrong
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
Iteratively Decoupling Legacy Architecture
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
Elasticsearch: Adventures in scaling a multitenant platform
Running Elasticsearch at scale can be challenging by itself. When adding multitenancy to the equation it can be hard to know what direction to take. At BigCommerce we use Elasticsearch for all the search features on our clients storefronts. As… continue reading
Advanced MySQL Basics
About once a year, there's a blog post from one of the current Tech Unicorns about how they had a big data problem and solved it with a slightly non-standard usage of MySQL. This is a really good thing, because… continue reading
Transaction Isolation Level (TXIL) Subtleties in MySQL
Continuing the discussion around transactions, consistency, and MySQL, we consider transaction isolation levels. Setting the TXIL Per Session Remember in MySQL we have auto-commit=1. When you set the transaction isolation level with a statement, that only lasts one transaction… continue reading