When you need to scale an application with a lot of data, how do you decide on a storage solution? How can you both safely store and efficiently interact with large data sets? This often turns into a debate about whether to use SQL or NoSQL. Each comes with strengths and drawbacks. But what if […]
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Bringing Job Spotter to iOS: Indeed’s First React Native App
In 2013, Facebook released ReactJS and changed the way a lot of people (including us) think about web development. In 2015, Facebook released React Native, allowing developers to create powerful native mobile experiences using JavaScript and React. When we planned to bring the Job Spotter app to iOS, we were hopeful that React Native would live […]
Gracefully Degrading Functionality Using Status
In a previous blog post, we described how to use our Status library to create a robust health check for your applications. In this follow-up, we show how you can check and degrade your application during an outage by: short-circuiting code paths of your application removing a single application instance from a data center load […]