Interesting Reads
We’re going to try something new, a roundup of interesting links that are being passed around by Wealthfront Engineers. A brief history of digital typefaces Language / Library / VM co-evolution in Java SE 8 by Brian Goetz A javascript type inference engine Alan Kay on complexity in software and how biology might help us,… Read more
Deploying With a Phone Call: Speech Recognition in a Java backend
We had a lot of fun playing with last week’s experiment. However, it became quickly obvious that clicking on a button next to the service you want to deploy is much more convenient than talking to your web browser. Could we take the experiment further and build something that’s actually useful? Well, we all knew… Read more
Siri for Continuous Deployment
It’s late on Friday afternoon, we’ve just finished an important marketing release (not a deployment which happen about 50 times a day) and playing with Siri ignited an interest in making our Deployment Manager respond to voice commands. Luckily x-webkit-speech makes that easy. Obviously the big demo here was going to be deploying services based… Read more
Happy Birthday, Wealthfront!
A year ago we rang the bell at the NASDAQ in Times Square and invited you to join us in a new way to invest your money. We’ve been pretty quiet lately while we’re working on the next thing we know you’ll love. Stay tuned in the coming weeks as we start to give you… Read more
Type safe JQuery with ST-JS
At Wealthfront some engineers believe that “A well-typed program never goes wrong” and that’s why we like statically typed languages (we mainly use Java for our back-end). We also appreciate the expressiveness of dynamically typed languages and the power of functional programming (we use JRuby and Javascript in the front-end). Scala and Clojure seem to be good candidates… Read more
Tools for Debugging Distributed Systems
We’ve previously written about the importance of internal tooling for creating a culture of empowering engineers and building a leveraged business. Our first example was adding bash completion to a curl wrapper script. Today I’d like to describe some of the internal tooling we use to make ourselves more productive in the distributed service oriented… Read more