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A Brief History of Jams

A Brief History of Jams

For six years, Strava has organized a regularly-scheduled internal hackathon called Jams. This is the story of how they came to be.
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Julien Silland

Migrating the Engineering Blog to Medium

At Strava Engineering we’ve been using a Jekyll powered static markdown blog hosted on GitHub pages since early 2015. A few weeks ago we…
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Pan Thomakos
Managing Internal iOS Dependencies with Private CocoaPods

Managing Internal iOS Dependencies with Private CocoaPods

Strava’s iOS application and extensions are powered by a lot of code. As with most apps, this is a combination of code written by Strava…
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Matt Robinson
Butler Merge Queue — How Strava Merges Code

Butler Merge Queue — How Strava Merges Code

For close to a year, a large portion of our repositories on GitHub have been using a fast-forward-only master branch that is guaranteed to…
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Pan Thomakos
Serving Maps for the World’s Athletes

Serving Maps for the World’s Athletes

The Strava mobile apps and website render millions of map images every day to provide geographic context to activities, routes, segments…
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Strava Engineering
Mesos at Strava

Mesos at Strava

Over the past few years at Strava, server side development has transitioned from our monolithic Ruby on Rails app (The Monorail) to a…
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Drew Robb
Calling all Strava Developers

Calling all Strava Developers

You are invited to Strava’s first developer API challenge!
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Strava Engineering
Cadence, Choo Choo!!

Cadence, Choo Choo!!

Over the last four years the mobile team at Strava has shipped more than fifty releases across Android and iOS. Our release cycle has…
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Strava Engineering
Get on the map!

Get on the map!

Our new maps are based on OpenStreetMap, and they can be improved by anyone, including you. Using Mapbox tools and OpenStreetMap data, we…
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Strava Engineering
Tailoring Maps for Strava Athletes

Tailoring Maps for Strava Athletes

You may have noticed some significant improvements to the look, feel and utility of the the maps on Strava’s activity and segment pages…
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Strava Engineering
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