The Data Point » Engineering

To state the very obvious, when resources are constrained, it is difficult to juggle competing priorities. At Magento Business Intelligence (and before that, RJMetrics), one thing that we always ...

https://blog.rjmetrics.com/2017/03/06/whats-opposite-death-1000-cuts-life-1000-heals/

There are a lot of reasons to be excited about web development in 2015, but the most important change in recent years has been the shift toward browsers updating themselves automatically. No long...

https://blog.rjmetrics.com/2015/09/10/the-beauty-of-evergreen-browsers/

ng-repeat is my favorite of all the core AngularJS directives. A huge amount of front end programming time goes into displaying lists of things in helpful ways and ng-repeat helps make that easie...

https://blog.rjmetrics.com/2015/09/02/8-features-of-ng-repeat/

Last year the code hosting service Code Spaces was forced to close its doors after a hacker compromised their AWS account and deleted everything.  We never learned the full story of how the a...

https://blog.rjmetrics.com/2015/06/08/aws-role-playing/

Here at RJMetrics, we’ve been expanding, refining and refactoring our software since the early days, but in the past year or so, we’ve made some big changes. Our code has seen two fundamental...

https://blog.rjmetrics.com/2015/02/15/sweet-liberty-set-your-data-free-with-clojure-and-rest/

A challenging fact of working on the RJMetrics batch computation framework and data warehouse is that little information can be assumed at compile time. RJMetrics consumes data from a variety of ...

https://blog.rjmetrics.com/2013/11/26/generative-testing/

As discussed in the June, 2011 Wired article, Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops, it is important to deliver actionable data quickly and preferably “in a context that makes it emotionally r...

https://blog.rjmetrics.com/2013/09/27/the-gonginator/

At RJMetrics, we have always wanted to provide our customers the ability to push data from a variety of platforms into our system, at any time, no questions asked. After months of hard work, we f...

https://blog.rjmetrics.com/2013/08/29/building-the-rjmetrics-data-import-api/

A few weeks ago, the first-ever RJMetrics hackathon took place at our Philadelphia headquarters. I decided to throw my hat into the ring with a project I’d been thinking about for a while: a ...

https://blog.rjmetrics.com/2012/12/12/mysql-to-mongodb-query-tanslator/

  Hoverboards probably won’t be on the shelves until 2015, or possibly 2014, but alpha versions of amazing, bleeding-edge web development frameworks are available today! Recently, there have b...

https://blog.rjmetrics.com/2012/05/15/the-future-of-web-dev-is-almost-here/