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Software testing is a challenge for modern web apps, and at Spokeo, we wanted a more efficient approach. We were using a combination of RSpec and Selenium to test a…
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Software testing is a challenge for modern web apps, and at Spokeo, we wanted a more efficient approach. We were using a combination of RSpec and Selenium to test a…
The Liability of Testing with PII Data How do you create sample data to test your data pipeline in a privacy-preserving way? Do you have sensitive production data lingering around…
The need for speed People tend to be impatient. If a delay is introduced into any process, whether it be driving on the road or being placed on hold, a…
TL;DR: Sometimes, writing an intermediate result to disk and then reading it back again is faster than checkpointing or unoptimized caching! At Spokeo, we use Spark on Amazon EMR to…
We (like everyone else) want to be able to ship easy to read code in a way that’s fast, maintainable, and free of errors. As our operations grow, so does…
Anyone who opens any software at all is familiar with versioning. It’s a concept people understand – newer versions of software have higher numbers. Think about all those iOS updates…