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Touch ID for Wealthfront App
At Wealthfront, our clients count on us to provide them with delightful financial services built with leading technology. They have chosen to trust us with some of their most important financial needs and keeping their money and data secure is of the utmost importance to us. When we released the Wealthfront iOS App in February… Read more
Security Notice on Shellshock / CVE-2014-6271 / CVE-2014-7169
On September 24 a vulnerability in Bash, named Shellshock, was publicly announced. The original Shellshock advisory, CVE-2014-6271, described a severe remotely-exploitable vulnerability in all versions of GNU Bash software. A follow-up advisory, CVE-2014-7169, was issued for an incomplete fix to CVE-2014-6271. Security review of Wealthfront systems confirmed no client-facing components were vulnerable to Shellshock. The… Read more
Small Files, Big Problem
Data drives everything we do here at Wealthfront, so ensuring it’s stored correctly and efficiently is of the utmost importance. To make sure we’re always as informed as possible we gather data from our online databases very frequently. However, this has the unfortunate side effect of creating a large amount of small files, which are… Read more
The Unanticipated Intern Experience
Two hours after I walked through the front door at Wealthfront, I pushed code to production. Two weeks after that I took part in conference calls to outside business partners. Two weeks after that I planned a critical feature with product managers. Two weeks after that I debated UI elements with the lead designers at… Read more
Statistics Is Eating the World
Wealthfront’s culture encourages self-directed engineers and researchers. By doing so we learn faster and make better decisions informed by facts on the ground. While this practice is obvious for startups with a handful of people, scaling up to large teams is challenging. We set out to scale our culture of decentralized learning and decision-making as… Read more
Writing JavaScript Tests for Asynchronous Events with Deferreds
A while back, one of our engineers at Wealthfront wrote an in-depth article about deferreds. It’s important that if the functionality you build relies on deferred objects to trigger asynchronous events, that the behavior is properly tested. In this post I will go through 2 simple examples on how to test functionality that uses deferred… Read more