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Marketside chats #2: Options for non-dummies

October 08, 2013

This article will explain some common misconceptions about options, using some simplifications. (1) It is not applicable to typical startup call options. (2) A call option allows you to buy a stock at a specified strike price by a specified expiration date. For a put option, replace ‘buy’ with ‘sell’. An option can be thought… Read more

Building your street cred — A career forum for women in tech hosted by Wealthfront

September 23, 2013

You’re invited to join Wealthfront and Femgineer for an evening of professional connections, lessons on “street cred,” great presenters, and food. Lots of food. Wealthfront is proud to host October’s Femgineer forum on the topic of Street Cred on Tuesday, October 22nd at 6pm in Palo Alto, CA. Femgineer co-founder Karen Catlin will discuss “Street… Read more

Joining Wealthfront as a new college graduate

September 13, 2013

The First Day On my first day as a backend engineer at Wealthfront I received an overview of our architecture by one of our engineers. During the overview I realized I would be working with several technologies and flow patterns with which I was completely unfamiliar. Fortunately for me, Wealthfront was forward thinking in choosing… Read more

Functional CSS (FCSS)

August 20, 2013

We’re big fans of functional programming at Wealthfront. Emphasizing immutability and functional style means fewer “surprises” because side-effects are limited or nonexistent. We can quickly build up large systems from discrete, focused components by way of composition. Applying such principles is straight forward in most languages, even if they’re not functional by definition, but the… Read more

ActiveJsonEntity and ActiveRecord’s shared DNA

June 26, 2013

New to ActiveJsonEntity? Check out the introduction. As a new engineer at Wealthfront, I’ve been getting my hands dirty migrating our existing hand-written models to ActiveJsonEntity models. It’s been a tremendous way to get to know our existing codebase and appreciate the power of ActiveJsonEntity. Coming from a traditional Rails background, I wanted to make… Read more

ActiveJsonEntity: Bridging the gap between Rails and Java

June 13, 2013

We have a service-based architecture here at Wealthfront. Instead of our Rails layer talking to a database, it makes RPC calls over HTTP to a collection of services that send and receive JSON. Without a database we can’t use ActiveRecord, and all the niceties it provides. In their first incarnation, our models were plain Ruby… Read more