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What It’s Like to Intern at Jet

Nicholas Antonov — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 11:00:20 +0000

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. […]

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Jet at Grace Hopper Celebration 2016!

Aimee Gerzofsky — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 16:00:48 +0000

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. […]

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Building Services Using Functional Language: Why? and How?

Nikhil Barthwal — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:00:59 +0000

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. […]

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Using Ansible to Manage Jet Infrastructure

Justen Walker — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 11:00:03 +0000

Or, Taming the Cloud with Copious Amounts of YAML

Ansible is a configuration management tool. It treats your infrastructure and configuration as simple text files in YAML. […]

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Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment. What is it? How do we plan to use it at Jet?

Nikhil Barthwal — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:00:11 +0000

BY NIKHIL BARTHWAL AND NORA JONES

What is Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment?
Let’s start by understanding what Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) is. […]

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xUnit-Jet – Open Sourced

Rand Davis — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:00:54 +0000

At Jet.com, we’re big fans of xUnit for unit testing (along with some other products). xUnit is primarily designed for C#, and while it can detect inequality between native F# types, it doesn’t have a true understanding of their structure. […]

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Event Sourcing is Awesome!

Gad Berger — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 11:00:19 +0000

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. […]

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A Visual Learning of What Kafka Is, What Problem It Solves and How We Got to It

Skanda Mohan — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:47:35 +0000

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). […]

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F# Async Stack Traces 3.0 vs 4.0

Dana Peele — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 19:52:52 +0000

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. […]

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To Transfer Attributes Directly from One Type to Another without Composition

Skanda Mohan — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 16:00:53 +0000

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. […]

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