Technology

Two months after applying for an internship at Jet after visiting a talk at their offices, I started my summer internship. I was placed on the Front-End Team, which handles the main front-end of the Jet.com website, after being interviewed by the head of that team. […]

Jet people often attend conferences in order to share information about Jet, bring innovative ideas back to Jet, and, of course, to meet really awesome people.   […]

Background:
The term “Web services” or simply “services” describes a standardized way of integrating Web-based applications using open standards over an Internet protocol backbone. […]

I wanted to share a simple and powerful example of why I think event sourcing is great. In doing so, I realized that we never described event sourcing on this blog or how we use it. […]

Let’s start with the basics of communication. We have the source of the communication (a producer), the communication itself (a message) and someone to receive and process the communication (a consumer). […]

Here at Jet we use F# for our back end microservices and a lot of asynchronous computation expression. These are wonderful when you want to write non-blocking, reactive code, but in F# 3.0 they came with a price: useless stack traces. […]

Or, “REMOVE ALL THOUGHTS OF INHERITANCE! THIS IS FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING, DAMMIT!”

The context: While working with a set of API contract, we found multiple types that have a lot of common attributes. […]