bigcommerce

A Panel Discussion on Multi-Storefront

In this panel, we chatted about how Multi-Storefront transforms enterprise businesses and answered live questions from our engaging audience.

bigcommerce

Women’s History Month Showcase: Meet Tharaa Elmorssi

We’re heading to Sydney, Australia to spotlight Tharaa Emorssi, a Front-end Software Engineer.

bigcommerce

Women’s History Month Feature: Meet Judith Dietz

Today, this celebration continues with our latest conversation between our Lead Software Engineer in Pricing, Meg Desko, and our Director of Engineering, Judith Dietz.

bigcommerce Featured

International Women’s Day Spotlight: Meet Tulasi Anand

We’re chatting with Tulasi Anand about her passions and her excitement not just for today, but for Women’s History Month too.

bigcommerce

Overcoming Adversity: Meet Our Software Engineer, Kevin Carr

See Kevin Carr's journey into engineering as well as his passion for this year’s Black History Month theme: Black Health and Wellness.

engineering

More than a POC - Remembering Matt Weiss

There are some people you cannot help but notice. You know, the kind who stand out even when they are sitting down. The kind you always want by your side. That's Matt. Calling him impactful is an understatement. He had this (un)natural ability to bring out the best in

diversity Featured

A Hackathon, a Hacker, and a Mentor

A year ago I was one of the hackers in need of mentorship, and only a professional developer for about three months when this [hackathon] came up. However, I’ve also learned over the past year that it’s far more rewarding to “shoot your shot” and miss than to sit on the bench watching everyone else.

iOS

Implementing iOS 13 Dark Mode in the new BigCommerce mobile app

How the BigCommerce mobile team added support for a major new feature of iOS 13.

Work Life Balance Featured

MFW: How I took back control of my work / life balance

What does “work / life balance” really mean? We are all so connected to everything via our various mobile devices, how do you really balance?

Google Cloud Platform

GCP Instances, Go To Sleep!

How do you keep your developers happily developing? You give them a suspendable cluster development environment on which to work!

techwomen

Opening the Door to Future Women Leaders

“Whether or not my daughters pursue a career in tech is immaterial, but that needs to be their own choice, not because they didn't have access or exposure to the opportunities."

data

Re-Platforming Data @BigCommerce: five second latency on Petabytes of data

Many analysts are hailing Data as the new oil. However, contrary to what they're saying, oil is a depleting resource. Data on the other hand, is an expanding resource.

architecture Featured

Native & React Native @ BigCommerce

Cross-platform tools "... allowed a team of motivated engineers who had never coded mobile apps to create an impressive full-functioning prototype that turned this exploratory project into a product driven venture for our team."

architecture

A Simple Architecture for Mobile Apps

Whether on-boarding a user, signing in to a service, or simply using a tab-based app with navigation stacks of different screens, almost any app process can be described as a flow of screens and information. It all begins with a start.

leaders Featured

VP of Engineering: The first 100 days

"I know that diverse teams outperform homogeneous ones and ultimately build better products..." - David Hauser, new BigCommerce VP of Engineering, reflects on the first 100 days of his journey.

leaders

README.md to Manage Humans

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

techwomen

International Women in Tech Visit BigCommerce

BigCommerce “inspired me to continuously grow and be a leader of excellence.“ - Elena Chigibaeva, TechWomen Mentee

bigcommerce

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.

engineering

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 Sydney, San Francisco, and two offices in Austin – corporate headquarters

SydPHP Laravel Talk: BigCommerce at Scale

In September 2017, we hosted the SydPHP Laravel meetup [https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/PHP-Laravel-Framework-Sydney/] 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 [//www.slideshare.net/secret/zS3FiyJPAyOeRV] from Ian

ruby

BigCommerce, gRPC, and gruf - a Ruby gRPC Framework

Today, we'd like to announce the availability of our latest open source project: gruf [https://github.com/bigcommerce/gruf], a Ruby framework for building gRPC services. Over the past year at BigCommerce, we've begun using gRPC [https://www.grpc.io] for our internal services. We believe gRPC provides the standardization

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: Technical Debt is a Positive and Necessary Step in software

architecture

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 of applying this to existing applications is how to get

elasticsearch

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 a SaaS provider we host all sorts of different customers

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 MySQL is an extremely versatile tool. Assembled in a modular