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Elasticsearch Architectural Overview

Elasticsearch Architectural Overview

Clusters, Nodes, Indices, Shards, and Documents
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Andrew LinFeb 29

How we grew our engineering team to 30 before hiring our first recruiter

The VTS engineering team has grown tremendously in the years following our Series A in December 2013. In that time, the team has grown from…3 engineers all the way to 30; that was all done without hiring a recruiter. How did we do that? Every engineer is an ambassador It all started with Karl Baum, the co-founder and CTO. If you haven’t had the privilege of meeting Karl, you’re missing out. He embodies all the qualities that you, as a technologist, want in your leader; he’s got intelligence, experience, and empathy. Karl has always made it abundantly clear that hiring is one of our top priorities on the engineering team…
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Andrew LinMar 3
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How One Ruby Method Let us Delete Thousands of Lines of Code.

How One Ruby Method Let us Delete Thousands of Lines of Code.

At VTS we have a saying: code is a liability. As an application grows, legacy code develops. This code might not ever be covered in your…
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Dean NasseriMar 5

Online Security with Robert Lowry

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VTS EngineeringFeb 12
Let’s Learn D3.js

Let’s Learn D3.js

Learning something new is both eye-opening and troubling. You get the satisfaction of accomplishing something, but you also realize how…
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Andrew LinFeb 11
How we chose Elasticsearch to filter and search data in VTS

How we chose Elasticsearch to filter and search data in VTS

One of the central models in VTS’s system is Deals. Deals keep track potential tenants from first contact all the way to when the lease is…
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Andrew LinFeb 5

AngularUI Router and Injecting $state vs $stateParams

AngularUI Router is the de facto routing library in the Angular world. It takes the traditional routing mechanisms, and builds a subtle…
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Dan UbillaFeb 1

Counting Systems and Character Encoding with Alex Wheeler

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VTS EngineeringJan 28

Dynamic Heroku Unicorn Worker Count

Every now and then some of our web dynos were suffering from what looked like the noisy neighbor problem. Symptoms included overall…
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Karl BaumDec 11, 2014

Our Brand New Shiny Domain

We did it! We were finally able to nab the vts.com domain. In this post we are going to focus on some of the technical steps we took when…
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Karl BaumJan 12, 2015
Adventures in Upgrading to Heroku Cedar-14

Adventures in Upgrading to Heroku Cedar-14

Heroku has deprecated their old Cedar-10 stack and the time came for us to ugrade to Cedar-14. The problem was that when we tried it out…
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Karl BaumSep 9, 2015
Route53 SSL Naked Domain Redirect

Route53 SSL Naked Domain Redirect

In a previous post, I wrote about the “shortcut” we took in configuring our naked domain to point to our Heroku app within Amazon Route 53…
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Karl BaumNov 1, 2015
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