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Enforce REST API Standard with Swagger

August 31, 2016

At Wealthfront, we have an API server which exposes a REST API that’s consumed by our iOS and Android apps. Recently we decided to migrate our web frontend to use the REST API because we believe it would be beneficial to have all of our frontends sharing a single data source. We identified a few… Read more

Consistent Test Setup Across Multiple Packages

August 23, 2016

At Wealthfront, we believe that all code should look like it was written by the same person. In practice, that means that across our frontend stack we enforce consistent patterns, follow code style guidelines, and use the same technologies. This enables engineers to easily contribute to projects they have never worked on before by reducing… Read more

Intelligent Metrics Monitoring

August 12, 2016

Here at Wealthfront we have many offline computations running in Spark. In some cases, small changes have caused a job to slow down dramatically, and other times, the size of the input may be growing and causing the job runtime to quickly increase. We normally check pipeline runtimes manually to make sure jobs are running… Read more