We spent the first five or so years building Braze without much in the way of formal project management. But by early 2018, we started seeing new, serious issues with the way our processes worked. To ensure that we could maintain our product velocity and maximize the efficiency of our engineering organization, we decided to embrace a new approach: Agile Software Development.
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Building Braze
Logcat and JUnit: An Unstoppable Combination for Android Tests
Our SDKs, code that our customers include directly into their apps to collectively send billions of events per day to our systems, are a crucial part of the Braze platform.That’s why it’s all the more important for the Braze team to make sure that our SDKs are working in top shape for our customers. In this post, we’ll dive in to how we test our Android SDK and keep it bug-free.
Building Braze
Finding and Fixing Hotspots Through Monitoring
At Braze, we've built our system for easy monitoring and modularity that lets us react to new customer use cases as they are uncovered. Learn how we find and fix hotspots through monitoring.
Building Braze
Achieving Resiliency With Queues: Building a System That Never Skips a Beat in a Billion
Braze processes billions and billions of events per day on behalf of its customers, resulting in billions of hyper-focused, personalized messages—but failing to send one of those messages has consequences. To make sure those key messages are always correct and always on time, Braze takes a strategic approach to how we leverage job queues.
Building Braze
Don’t Forget About Network Scalability!
Braze (formerly Appboy) handles a tremendous amount of scale in our systems, dealing with hundreds of thousands of API calls per second and running thousands of databases and application servers. But it hasn't always run this smoothly. Read on to learn how Braze embraced the cloud to better handle massive growth.
Building Braze
It Wasn't Me—It Was the Multi-Armed Man: How Intelligent Selection Can Enhance Your Testing
In this industry, we all need to know if our actions produce the results we want, and, frankly, we’d like to know quickly. In marketing, testing has been used for decades to quantitatively compare messages against each other and against a control. In digital marketing especially, subject line testing and similar kinds of copy testing have never been easier. But, there are details to consider. One big one: how much data do you need to perform a meaningful test?
